Stephen King, Bag Of Bones Quotes

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.

Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.

A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.

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

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

Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even if they try their best to be identical, because they're never the same from day to day or even moment to moment.

I will scream as the sanity leaves my mind forever. I will scream...but there is no one there to hear me.

When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-

Sometimes things work just because you think they work. It's as good a definition of faith as any.

Even when the lightening flashes inside them we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, the next pain, the next breath, the next page. This is how we go on.

Grief is like a drunken house guest, always coming back for one more goodbye hug.

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.

Be sure your sin will find you out...Be sure.

And perhaps the greatest blessing was that we never knew how short the time was.

When one has little faith, one must survive from day to day signs-

There was a madness in my story, but it was a madness I understood.