How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
The town has a sense, not of history, but of time, and the telephone poles seem to know this. If you lay your hand against one, you can feel the vibration from the wires deep in the wood, as if souls had been imprisoned in there and were struggling to get out. (4.481)
King seems to be seeing the town as a kind of graveyard, with people buried in the telephone wires. Maybe the town would have been saved from vampires if they only had cell phones.
Quote #5
"Essentially, it's about the recurrent power of evil." (5.89)
Ben is describing his book, and also King's book. Both are about the recurrent power of evil, in the sense that both are about the Marsten House, which seems to draw evil to it. But the Marsten House for Ben is also about his own childhood—it's a pretty alluring memory. So maybe King's book is also about the idea of evil coming back again and again as an enjoyable recollection of childhood.
Quote #6
"Houses are only houses. Evil dies with the perpetration of evil acts." (9.192)
Susan is arguing that the Marsten House isn't really evil. Interestingly, her second sentence doesn't follow from the first. Houses may be only houses, but doing evil things can have repercussions for a long time. For instance, if you chat with a vampire long distance, the vampire may show up in your backyard. Or, if, like Larry Crockett, you make a shady land deal in your hometown, everything might go to hell. Evil acts have legs. And sometimes fangs.