R.K. King Quotes

Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

Close your eyes and click your heals three times...because there's no place like Dome.

Pride was the belt you used to hold your pants up when you had no pants.

Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.

Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.

There was a beautiful feeling of calm in my groin, a sense of peace so remarkable it was almost ecstasy——anyone who' suffered bad pain and then recovered will know what I'm talking about.

FEAR stands for face everything and recover – Old AA saying

I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.

Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

This inhuman place makes human monsters.

Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all.

Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be.

Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.

Without story books is like a person with no soul.

All dark and comfortless.

Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't have to makes speeches. Just believing is usually enough.

Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up

Our memories have voices, too. Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark.

Find a voice in a whisper.

He removed his unvaluable valuables and dumped his shirt, pants, and skivvies into a letter slot.

The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.

The things a man sees when he ain't got a gun.--Watson the Caretaker

It's a hard life if you don't weaken.

Never give a good politician time to pray.

Until that afternoon in October four years ago, I hadn't known dogs could scream.

He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.

Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature.

In the years since, I've discovered there's a lot to be said for boredom.

And this wasn’t lying, not really. It was leaving out.

Working with him was sort of like trying to defuse a bomb with somebody standing behind you and every now and then clashing a pair of cymbals together. In a word, upsetting.

I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.

Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back.

Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!

It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover.

Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.

What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?

We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.

The monster nevers dies.

We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.

What you don’t know, you can’t tell. Or made to tell.

My heart's with you, Bill, no matter how it turns out. My heart is with all of them, and I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams.

What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.

One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else.

You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.

Sometimes dead is better

But now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal.

You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.

So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then.