Quotes from Stephen King

The pain was brilliant, like a poisonous inspiration.

You could get used to anything if you had to. She knew that now.

if you try to outrun your own shadow, you're bound to fall on your face.

Eventual, as Pug used to say. When he wanted to say something was really good, he's never say it was awesome, like most people do; he'd say it was eventual. How funny is that? The old Pugmeister. I wonder how he's doing.

They stood on the porch in the fading light, Jack in the middle, his left arm around Danny's shoulders and his right arm around Wendy's waist. Together they watched as the decision was taken out of their hands.

Animals. Let them burn, then. Let the streets be filled with the smell of their sacrifice. Let this place be called racca, ichabod, wormwood. Flex And power transformers atop lightpoles bloomed into nacreous purple light, spitting catherine-wheel sparks. High-tension wires fell into the streets in pick-up-sticks tangles...

That in turn made him think of some poem or other, one about how you could spend years running, but in the end you always wound up facing yourself in a hotel room, with a naked bulb hanging overhead and a revolver on the table.

Boredom can be a very good thing for someone in a creative jam.

you wondered why in the hell the world had been created in the first place. Good things were in short supply, and so much of the rest was downright rancid.

The technological society has walked off the court, so to speak, but they've left all the basketballs behind. Someone will come along who remembers the game and teach it to the rest again.

He and Sully dared each other to go on the Wild Mouse and finally went together, howling deliriously as their car plunged into each dip, simultaneously sure that they were going to live forever and die immediately.

I think different. And I can think different if I want to.

Life is a capricious bussines.

No need to live in trouble until trouble comes.

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

She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time. How much of it was her fault? That question haunted her.

Oh, what the fuck,' she told the empty house. 'Bring on the night.

A mob always picked its own leaders, and it always picked the right ones.

THERE IS NO GRAVITY, THE EARTH JUST SUCKS.

We see in part, and thus is the mirror of prophecy darkened." There are other worlds, gunslinger, and other demons. These waters are deep. Watch for the doorways. Watch for the roses and the unfound doorways.

while I love each and every item, I'm happy to sell them, because I made them especially for you. Feel free to examine them, but please be careful. The best of them have teeth.

One cannot increase one's talent—that comes with the package—but it is possible to keep talent from shrinking.

It seemed to him that if the wrong man stepped into the marriage-loop with a woman, it was a noose instead of a ring.

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