Quotes from Stephen King, The Green Mile

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.

Everyone— black as well as white— thinks it's going to be better over the next jump of land.

It was sweet and lovely, that smile, perhaps the more so because it wasn't complicated by much in the way of thought.

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

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

Sometimes, the embers are better then the campfire. It's strange, but it's true.

Like some dogs: kick them once and they never trust you again, no matter how nice you are to them.

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.