Owen King > Quotes

“To give another person the benefit of the doubt was about as difficult an everyday task as anyone faced.”
― Owen King, Double Feature

“Only monsters would harm a cat.”
― Owen King, The Curator

“If immortals don’t eventually long for their own deaths, they must surely long for the deaths of fellow immortals.”
― Owen King, The Curator

“Guns.' Evie spoke to no one in particular. 'The perfect solution to any problem. The more you have, the more perfectly they solve the problem.”
― Owen King, Stephen King, Sleeping Beauties

“It was freeing, in a way, and affirming too. No one cared; they just pretended.”
― Owen King, Letter Slot

“Which is to say, not even his own people liked him. It did not matter that he had achieved prosperity of a kind that illiterate river rats never achieved. He was admired for his genius, and envied for his luck, but the Charmer had never been one for making friends.”
― Owen King, The Curator

“There were men and women in public life that he disapproved of, like the politicians who said people like Eileen shouldn’t exist or who claimed to care about the vulnerable but refused to do anything about the guns that deranged shooters used to commit mass murder in schools. He hated what those politicians stood for, but he didn’t hate them. They were hypocrites, sure, but they might also be kind parents, or generous friends; you just didn’t know, because you couldn’t hate someone you didn’t actually know.”
― Owen King, Letter Slot

“When he dreamed of the future, he didn’t fantasize about being wealthy or famous. He just thought how nice it would be not to worry.”
― Owen King, Letter Slot