R.K. King Quotes

Do grown men always have to play games? Does everything have to be an excuse for another kind of game? Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?

At such times one sees everything and remembers it all. I know from personal experience. I wish I did not.

It was as if the body disdained memory... or refused the responsibility of it.

They were with him, and for that little while the darkness was kind.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

His head .. it exploded. As if someone had scooped out his brains and put a hand grenade in his skull.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree

Go with your bad self.

The word is only a representation of the meaning, even at its best, writing almost always falls short of full meaning.

Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

I think houses live their own lives along a time-stream that's different from the ones upon which their owners float, one that's slower. In a house, especially an old one, the past is closer.

What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be

Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha?She had shaken her head slowly.Men and women who can't get over their past . . . That's what ghosts are.

we shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will. And we shall continue to love you.

What he knows now is that guilt isn’t the only reason people commit suicide. Sometimes you can just get bored with afternoon TV.

When you’re still too young to shave, optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

Nothing lasts forever, ' Richie repeated. He looked up at Bill, and Bill saw tears cut slowly through the dirt on Richie's cheeks.'Except maybe for love, ' Ben said.'And desire, ' Beverly said.

Mum, mum, He that keeps nor crust nor crumb, Weary of all, shall want some.

A fancy comes to me--that desire can never attain its object--it need never attain it.

But sooner or later the last good time would come around. It does for all of us.

We're not quite ending where we began, but close enough.Close enough.

... good advice was sometimes easier to give than receive.

By the time he was done with the deer it had been dark three hours and his bad leg was singing 'Ave Maria'.

You can never be too thin or too rich. And if you don't believe it you were never really fat or really poor.

People who leave their drugs in a bathroom the guests use are just asking for trouble.

She could smell damprot, high, sweet, and cloying. She could smell madness like dead vegetables in a dark cellar.

He didn’t like the way things were going.There were bad omens in the wind, evil portents like bats fluttering in the dark loft of a deserted barn.

[If] a man doesn't have a job or an income, he has neither life nor liberty nor the possibility for the pursuit of happiness. He merely exists.

When you write a story you're telling yourself the story. When you rewrite your main job is taking out all the things that are NOT the story.

The truth is that most writers are needy.

No one doubts your courage, but you are a headstrong knight and when you choose a way you cannot change your course even if it lead to your destruction. That is your fault and your destiny.

Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a coincidence is just a coincidence.

Roland of Gilead responded as he ever had and ever would when such useless, mystifying questions were raised: 'Ka.

There were fourteen steps exactly fourteen. But the top one was smaller, out of proportion, as if it had been added to avoid the evil number.

perhaps the problem of evil is a human problem, one of an egotistical mind-set, an anthropocentric bent in our thinking and perspective.

Invitation to Dance-It’s a Dance. And sometimes they turn the lights off in this ballroom.But we’ll dance anyway, you and I. Even in the Dark. Especially in the Dark.May I have the pleasure?

Lover, " she whispers, and closes her eyes.It falls upon her.Love is like dying.

stop now before i kill youa word to the wise from your friendPENNYWISE

Never will you talk to me like that again.

It ain't the blows we're dealt that matter, but the ones we survive.

Those aren't doors, and they're not opening. Those are crypts, Richie. They're cracking open and the vampires you thought were dead are all flying out again.

Maybe this isn't home, nor ever was- maybe home is where I have to go tonight. Home is the place where when you go there, you have to finally face the thing in the dark.

Donald Trump is worse than any horror story I've written.

It all floats down here!

Horror spawns horror

What none of them knew, of course, was that Carrie White was telekinetic.

There was an ocean above us, held in by a thin sac that might rupture and let down a flood at any second.

Never tell to much. The monster is always scarier when it is still under the child's bed.

You stole my story and something's got to be done about it.

I knew there were no ghosts in there, but on the other hand, what if there were?