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NOS4A2: A Novel

NOS4A2 is a spine-tingling novel of supernatural suspense from master of horror Joe Hill, the New York Times bestselling author of Heart-Shaped Box and Horns.Victoria McQueen has a secret gift for finding thin

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“There’s the physical world... but there’s also our own private inner worlds, the world of our thoughts. A world made of ideas instead of stuff. It’s just as real as our world, but it’s inside.”

— Joe Hill, amazon.com

Tagged: Reality, worlds, Ideas

“People made the imaginary real all the time: taking the music they heard in their head and recording it, seeing a house in their imagination and building it. Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.”

— Joe Hill, amazon.com

Tagged: imaginary, Reality, Music, Fantasy

“Emotions are as real as gravity. Dreams are as powerful as history.”

— Joe Hill, amazon.com

Tagged: emotions, gravity, Dreams, History

“Every man loves a hot girl with a history of making mistakes. Because it’s always possible she’ll make one with you.”

— Joe Hill, amazon.com

Tagged: hot girls, Mistakes, Love

“Her sanity was a fragile thing, a butterfly cupped in her hands, that she carried with her everywhere, afraid of what would happen if she let it go - or got careless and crushed it.”

— Joe Hill, amazon.com

Tagged: Sanity, fragile, Fear

“My first wife was like the rash you get from poison ivy. I couldn't stand her, but I couldn't keep my hands off her. She was an itch I scratched until I bled.”

— Joe Hill, amazon.com

Tagged: Marriage, Wife, poison, bleeding

“I remember an era when you could get your nose sliced off for sticking it too far into another man's business. Now you can find out anything about anyone with the click of a button. There is no privacy and no consideration, and everyone is prying into things that aren't their affair. You can probabl…”

— Joe Hill, amazon.com

Tagged: Privacy, Internet, Online, stalking

“Everyone you lost was still there with you, and so maybe no one was ever lost at all.”

— Joe Hill, amazon.com

Tagged: Death, lost, Alone

“You can't let facts get in the way of the truth.”

— Joe Hill, amazon.com

Tagged: Facts, Truth, Lies

“Innocence ain't all it's cracked up to be, you know. Innocent little kids rip the wings off flies, because they don't know any better. That's innocence.”

— Joe Hill, amazon.com

Tagged: Innocence, Childhood, Violence

“The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way.”

— Joe Hill, amazon.com

Tagged: Childhood, adults, Children, Imagination, resignation

“What a blessed if painful thing, this business of being alive.”

— Joe Hill, amazon.com

Tagged: Pain, Living, alive, Blessings

“She'd thought love had something to do with happiness, but it turned out they were not even vaguely related. Love was closer to a need, no different from the need to eat, to breathe.”

— Joe Hill, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Happiness, Need, eating, breathing

“Was there any human urge more pitiful, or more intense, than wanting another chance at something?”

— Joe Hill, amazon.com

Tagged: humanity, urges, chances, Second Chances

“Nurse Thorton dropped into the long-term-care ward a little before eight with a hot bag of blood for Charlie Manx.”

— Joe Hill, amazon.com

Tagged: first lines of books