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“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“Death is lighter than a feather. Duty, heavier than a mountain.”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“Wolf! Right here and now!”
― Peter Straub, The Talisman

“Don't do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again; don't do it; and the little girl glanced at her, and smiled a little subtle, dimpling, wholly comprehending smile, and shook her head stubbornly at the glass. Brave girl, Eleanor thought; wise, brave girl.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.”
― Stephen King, ’Salem’s Lot

“I am afraid, but I have been afraid before. All he can take from me is what I would have to give up someday anyhow—my life. I will not let him break me down. I will not let him make me less than I am, if I can possibly help it.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“small towns have long memories and pass their horrors down ceremonially from generation to generation.”
― Stephen King, 'Salem's Lot

“Time's the thief of memory”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“It's a poorboy sanditch,' Roland said. 'With lots of mayo, whatever that is. I'd want a sauce that didn't look quite so much like come, myself, but may it do ya fine.”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower

“Death, but not for you, gunslinger.”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower

“The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king.”
― Stephen King, ’Salem’s Lot

“Doesn’t look like a monster, does he?” “They rarely do.”
― Stephen King, The Outsider

“Everything goes away, Jack Sawyer, like the moon. Everything comes back, like the moon.”
― Stephen King, The Talisman

“You'll use it, boy, and as long as you hate using it, you will use it more wisely than most men would. Wait. If ever you don't hate it any longer, then will be the time to throw it as far as you can and run the other way.”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“We can't imagine time running out, and God punishes us for what we can't imagine.”
― Stephen King, Duma Key

“The truth is in the details.”
― Stephen King, Duma Key

“The only way to go on is to go on”
― Stephen King

“when it comes to the past, we all stack the deck. Ilse”
― Stephen King, Duma Key

“Because forgetting isn’t always involuntary. Sometimes it’s willed.”
― Stephen King, Duma Key

“And beneath me the murmur of the shells had become the gossip of dead things telling secrets in bone voices.”
― Stephen King, Duma Key

“Even a prison becomes comforting if it’s the only thing you know.”
― Riley Sager, The Only One Left

“But that’s not what you’re most curious about, is it? You want to know if I’m as evil as everyone says I am. The answer is no. And yes.”
― Riley Sager, The Only One Left

“It's possible to love someone while hating something they've done.”
― Riley Sager, The Only One Left

“Men like him gobbled up all they could, leaving nothing for everyone else.”
― Riley Sager, The Only One Left

“Here, we give young women accused of terrible deeds the benefit of the doubt.”
― Riley Sager, The Only One Left

“It’s our lot in life, Kit-Kat,” he told me. “People like us toil. The rich bastards running everything make sure of that.”
― Riley Sager, The Only One Left

“Ladies shouldn’t play pool,” she once told me. “Lucky for me I’m not a lady,” I replied.”
― Riley Sager, The Only One Left

“Every house has a story to tell.”
― Riley Sager, Home Before Dark

“Maybe you need to stop retracing your footsteps. Maybe you need to try a new path.”
― Stacy Willingham, All the Dangerous Things