"The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years—if it ever did end—began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain." Part 1, The Shadow Before, Chapter 1, After the Flood (1957), pg. 3

"Rich felt like he was doing pretty good until the vomiting started."
Part 1, The Shadow Before, Chapter 3, Six Phone Calls (1985), pg. 56

"Can an entire city be haunted?
Haunted as some houses are supposed to be haunted?
Not just a single building in that city, or the corner of a single street, or a single basketball court in a single pocketpark, the netless basket jutting out at sunset like some obscure and bloody instrument of torture, not just one area—but everything. The whole works.
Can that be?" Derry:The First Interlude, pg. 139

"She went quickly down...