Stephen King Quotes
Stephen King Quote of the day
Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.
The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows
Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.
In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.
If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone
There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.
Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up
I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.
He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it set in again.
Close your eyes and click your heals three times...because there's no place like Dome.
Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.
Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.
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.
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.
He removed his unvaluable valuables and dumped his shirt, pants, and skivvies into a letter slot.
Never tell to much. The monster is always scarier when it is still under the child's bed.
Paths cross all the time in this world of ours, sometimes in the strangest places- Charles Jacobs
The perception of a child who has not yet learned to protect itself by developing the tunnel vision that keeps out ninety percent of the universe.
No one ever forgets a toy that made him or her supremely happy as a child, even if that toy is replaced by one like it that is much nicer.
There was an ocean above us, held in by a thin sac that might rupture and let down a flood at any second.
I knew there were no ghosts in there, but on the other hand, what if there were?
Moonlight flooded in the windows and silvered the room, turning it into a lagoon of dreams
It took me twenty years of living with my father to accept the idea that being good could be good enough.
The most classic horror tale of this latter type is the Old Testament story of Job, who becomes human Astro-Turf in a kind of spiritual Superbowl between God and Satan.
Get busy living or get busy dying.”― Stephen King, The Shawshank Redemption
Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.
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.
She gave him a strange maternal grin.For the first time, clearly, the thought surfaced in Paul Sheldon’s mind: I am introuble here. This woman is not right.
He could not say goodbye to these three rooms as he could to a house he had loved: hotel rooms accepted departures emotionlessly.
The feel of the sticky wetness down there when she moved made her grimace. God, she wanted to get cleaned up. In a hurry.
