“Was he the only one who had known about the dark places? The dirty dark places where you were so alone and wretchedly voiceless? Maybe she didn't know all that he had, but she knew enough. Certainly she knew he had been haunted, and would never look into a mirror -- any reflective surface, if he could help it -- after the sun went down. And she had loved him in spite of all that.” Stephen King, Lisey’s Story
This is what powerful writing can do, reveal ourselves to ourselves. If you have never read Stephen King you are missing out on an amazing experience. Ezra Pound said that as one is reading the book should be like a "bolt of light" in his hand. King's work is a "bolt of light." Frequently it is a light that illuminates something in myself that would also have driven me from looking into mirrors, but I am grateful in the end.
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