Afterward I told his widow, "Your husband is dead, but at least he died laughing. ' I think … - Rick Yancey

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The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.

Rick Yancey

Afterward I told his widow, "Your husband is dead, but at least he died laughing. ' I think she took some comfort in that. It is the second-best way to die, Will Henry. " He did not say what the best way was.

Died, Henry, Husband, Laughing, Thinking

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I do not mean to mock or ridicule your life's work, for in one way at least it mimics my own: We have dedicated our lives to the pursuit of phantoms. The difference is the nature of those phantoms. Mine exist between other men's ears; yours live solely between your own.

Difference, Differences, Mean, Men, Ridicule, Solely

Have you fallen in love, Will Henry?" "That's stupid. " "What is? Love, or my question?" "I don't know. " "You don't know? You've tried that trick once. What do you suppose it will work better the second time?" "I don't love her. She bothers me. " "You have just defined the very thing you denied.

Denied, Know, Stupid, Time, Tricks, What Is Love

There are those who labor in the darkness, that the rest of us might live in the light.

Light, Darkness, Might, Labor, Rest

Please, do not leave me, Will Henry. I would not survive it. You were nearly right. What Mr. Kendall was, I am always on the brink of becoming. And you - I do not pretend to know how or even why - but you pull me back from the precipice. You are the one. . . You are the one thing that keeps me Human.

Becoming, Leaving Me, Please, Nearly, Kendall

Our enemy is fear. Blinding, reason-killing fear. Fear consumes the truth and poisons all the evidence, leading us to false assumptions and irrational conclusions.

Assumption, Enemy, Evidence, False, Fear, Poison