Stephen King: "Sejenak ia merasakan harapan yang liar: mungkin ini ben...

"Sejenak ia merasakan harapan yang liar: mungkin ini benar-benar mimpi buruk. Mungkin dia akan bangun di tempat tidurnya sendiri, mandi keringat, gemetaran, bahkan mungkin menangis. . . tapi hidup. Aman. Kemudian dia menyingkirkan pikiran itu. Pesonanya mematikan, kenyamanannya fatal."

--- Stephen King

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For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even crying . . . but alive. Safe. Then he pushed the thought away. Its charm was deadly, its comfort fatal.