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“Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.”
― Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis

“You had to know when it made sense to try to untangle something and when to just cut the motherfucker loose.”
― Joe Hill, NOS4A2

“I hope you liked them, Reader; that they did for you what any good story should do--make you forget the real stuff weighing on your mind for a little while and take you away to a place you've never been. It's the most amiable sort of magic I know.”
― Stephen King

“The problem with books is that they end. They seduce you. They spread their legs to you and pull you inside. And you go deep and leave your possessions and your ties to the world at the door and you like it inside and you don't want for your possessions or your ties and then, the book evaporates.”
― Caroline Kepnes, You

“When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.”
― Stephen King, Joyland

“Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.”
― Stephen King, Bag of Bones

“There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal "Once upon a time.”
― Stephen King

“There's nothing like stories on a windy night when folks have found a warm place in a cold world.”
― Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole

“And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.”
― Stephen King

“we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts.”
― Stephen King, Danse Macabre

“Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. Only enemies speak the truth.”
― Stephen King

“A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.”
― Stephen King

“For me, that emotional payoff is what it’s all about. I want you to laugh or cry when you read a story...or do both at the same time. I want your heart, in other words. If you want to learn something, go to school.”
― Stephen King

“Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.”
― Stephen King, Everything's Eventual

“Gold don't come off. What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes.”
― Joe Hill, NOS4A2

“... people made the imaginary real all the time: taking the music they heard in their head and recording it, seeing a house in their imagination and building it. Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.”
― Joe Hill, NOS4A2

“If you’re going to be mad, she heard her father say, then use it, and don’t be used by it.”
― Joe Hill, NOS4A2

“Everyone you lost was still there with you, and so maybe no one was ever lost at all.”
― Joe Hill, NOS4A2

“I own every book Stephen King has ever written."
"That's great. That's something to be proud of."
But did you read them, fuckface?”
― Caroline Kepnes, You

“The Internet is a beautiful thing and you sent a tweet an hour after we met that day: I smell cheeseburgers. #CornerBistroIsMakingMeFat

And let me tell you, for a moment there, I was concerned. Maybe I wasn’t special. You didn’t even mention me, our conversation. Also: I talk to strangers is a line in your Twitter bio. I talk to strangers. What the fuck is that, Beck? Children are not supposed to talk to strangers but you are an adult. Or is our conversation nothing to you? Am I just another stranger? Is your Twitter bio your subtle way of announcing that you’re an attention whore who has no standards and will give audience to any poor schmuck who says hello? Was I nothing to you? You don’t even mention the guy in the bookstore? Fuck, I thought, maybe I was wrong. Maybe we had nothing. But then I started to explore you and you don’t write about what really matters. You wouldn’t share me with your followers. Your online life is a variety show, so if anything, the fact that you didn’t put me in your stand-up act means that you covet me. Maybe even more than I realize...”
― Caroline Kepnes, You

“6:08 and the next dude in line is buying the new King and The Shining just to be bold — he calls The Shining a prequel and I want to cut his face”
― Caroline Kepnes, You

“I don't say anything. I know the power of silence. I remember my dad saying nothing and I remember his silences more vividly than I remember the things he said.”
― Caroline Kepnes, You

“The only thing crueler than a cage so
small that a bird can’t fly is a cage so
large that a bird thinks it can fly.”
― Caroline Kepnes, You

“Don't be ridiculous, Charlie, people love the parents who beat their kids in department stores. It's the ones who just let their kids wreak havoc that everybody hates.”
― Christopher Moore, A Dirty Job

“I loved Vinny like he was a part of me, and he loved me like a stick of gum. He’d spat me out when the flavor went, unwrapped another, and stuffed it in...”
― David Mitchell

“It’s not romantic and it’s a daylight date but I understand that your attraction to me is so intense that you need to keep a safe distance.”
― Caroline Kepnes, You

“There are two infections running rampant. One is the Dragonscale, and the other is panic.”
― Joe Hill, The Fireman

“She came back from the eighties to save mankind. Martha Quinn is our only hope.”
― Joe Hill, The Fireman

“Your personality is not just a matter of what you know about yourself, but what others know about you. You are one person with your mother, and another with your lover, and yet another with your child. Those other people create you--finish you--as much as you create you. When you're gone, the ones you've left behind get to keep the same part of you they always had.”
― Joe Hill, The Fireman

“Some people are made stronger by loss. Others are broken by it.”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Night Sister