Stephen King, The Green Mile Quotes
We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.
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.
The person healed has an obligation to then ask why— to meditate on God's will, and the extraordinary lengths to which God has gone to realize His will.
Like some dogs: kick them once and they never trust you again, no matter how nice you are to them.
What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be
That— we seemed to have decided without saying a word— might go a long way toward spoiling something that was special, and beautiful, by virtue of its strangeness and delicacy.
It would not do to tell other people, not just because they wouldn't believe but because they wouldn't care.
He was nothing but a conduit, after all, and there isn't a culvert in the world that remembers the water flowed through it once the rain has stopped.
It was sweet and lovely, that smile, perhaps the more so because it wasn’t complicated by much in the way of thought.
Everyone— black as well as white— thinks it's going to be better over the next jump of land.
Sometimes, the embers are better then the campfire. It's strange, but it's true.
The inmates made jokes about the chair, the way people always make jokes about things that frighten them but can't be gotten away from.
The wide corridor up the centre of E Block was floored with linoleum the colour of tired old limes, and so what was the Last Mile at other prisons was called the Green Mile at Cold Mountain.
When you spend your life taking care of mudmen, you can't help getting a little dirty yourself.