Quotes from Stephen King

That was what I wanted, but I don't need it to be gone. I can love you and I can love life and bear the pain all at the same time. I think the pain might even make the rest better, the way a good setting can make a diamond look better.

The lessons which I remember the longest are always the ones that are self-taught

no knowledge obtained without risk

Sometimes loving eyes don't see what they don't want to see.

I think you're a taker. You've always been one. It's like God left some part of you out when He built you inside of me.

Maybe, he thought, there aren't any such things as good or bad friends - maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they're always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.

Don't go beyond, no matter how much you feel you need to, Doctor. The barrier was not made to be broken. Remember this: there is more power here than you know. It is old and always restless. Remember.

Wandering's the most addictive drug there is, I think, and every hidden road leads on to a dozen more.

The world turns, that's all. You can hold on and turn with it, or stand up to protest and be spun right off.

In a terrified world, false news was king.

Ka was a wheel; it was also a net from which none ever escaped.

But a spider was, after all, only a spider. Perhaps at the end, when the masks of horror were laid aside, there was nothing with which the human mind could not cope.

In many ways the world is nothing but a pile of shit. But it can also be very beautiful.

people always want a reason for the bad things in life. Sometimes there ain't one.

In the years since, I've discovered there's a lot to be said for boredom.

Make-up covers a multitude of sins.

Writing does not cause misery, it is born of misery. – Montaigne

Close your eyes and click your heals three times...because there's no place like Dome.

Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, make like a tree and leave, imitate an amoeba and split.

Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.

Hairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never.

This was the Darker Life, where every truth was written backward.

Atonement was powerful; it was the lock on the door you closed against the past.

They float, they all float... and when you're down here with me, fat boy, you'll float too.