Доля Салему

Он был одинок, но одиночество его не тяготило.

The ordinary fellow isn’t half so leery of the supernatural as the fiction writers like to make out. Most writers who deal in that particular subject, as a matter of fact, are more hardheaded about spirits and demons and boogies than your ordinary man in the street. Lovecraft was an atheist. Edgar Allen Poe was sort of a half-assed transcendentalist. And Hawthorne was only conventionally religious.

The town has its secrets, and keeps them well. The people don’t know them all-they know old Albie Crane’s wife ran off with a traveling man from New York City or they think they know it.

It was Matt’s theory that a high school play should be like a bowl of Campbell’s Alphabet Soup: tasteless but not actively offensive

To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex.

Если хотите дожить до финала, – упрямо заявил Джимми, – то надо поберечь силы.

– А я думал, что вы не циник.
– Заметьте, что моей вины тут нет, – улыбнулся Мэтт.

— Ты вонючка, — сказал Дэнни. — Ты это знаешь?
— Знаю, — гордо отозвался Ральфи. — А что это такое?