Quotes from Stephen King

Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. Only enemies speak the truth.

Why didn't you kill me like you did that guy back there? Billy? Or does it even make any sense to ask? Are you beyond why?' Oh shit, we're all beyond why, you know that.

My tongue runs like a supermarket conveyor belt on payday.

Allie sighed. It was an old, yellow sound, like turning pages.

Feelings are invulnerable to rational thought.

The true world was behind it.

We don't own things. Things own us.

the scholar's greatest weakness: calling hesitation research.

There is a certain mentality that believes in covering up. They believe in it with the sincerity and fanaticism that members of some religious groups believe in the divinity of Jesus. Because, for some people, the necessity to continue covering up even after the damage is done is all-important.

She felt like someone who drowns remembering what it was like to still be on the boat, so calm and at ease, so carelessly safe

thoes prepared to shed copious floods of crocodile tears . . .

In a democracy we sometimes have to put up with things we don't life or approve of.

I know what you mean, jellybean.

I thought you were good, but you are not good. You are just a lying old dirty birdie.

At three in the morning the blood runs slow and thick, and slumber is heavy. The soul either sleeps in blessed ignorance of such an hour or gazes about itself in utter despair. There is no middle ground

The best thing about being old is you don't have to worry about dieing young.

When I bore you, just tell me to shut up, I won't be offended.' 'I like to listen,' Stu said. 'Then you are one of God's chosen. Let's go.

When it comes to memory, we all stack the deck.

Your bullshit quotient is higher than my husband

I see holes like eyes

Each life makes its own imitation of immortality.

No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves, don't we?

The gate is the key to the kingdom.

Later on in life, you might wish that the good things which all befall in your one special year had spread themselves out a little more.