Danni > Danni's Quotes

“You can call it love, or you can call it freefall. They're pretty much the same thing.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“...You should love something while you have it, love it fully and without reservation, even if you know you'll lose it someday. We lose everything. If you're trying to avoid loss, there's no point in taking another breath, or letting your heart beat one more time. It all ends." His fingers curl around mine. "That's all life is. Breathing in, breathing out. The space between two breaths.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“I see the lights every night. It seems like the whole world has figured out how to be happy, but no one's letting me in on the secret.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“I respect people who get nerdy as fuck about something they love”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“I can't hold on to you. You're like a shooting star. Just a trail of fire in my hands.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“That is all life is. Breathing in, breathing out. The space between two breaths.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“The only way to cure an obsession is to become obsessed with something else.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“Why did everything beautiful come from pain?”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“Don’t come here to fuck with my head and play games. You don’t test someone’s love by leaving them.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it's when the lights go out and something green and slimy splatters against your arm. The Horror: the unnatural, spiders the size of bears, the dead waking up and walking around, it's when the lights go out and something with claws grabs you by the arm. And the last and worse one: Terror, when you come home and notice everything you own had been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It's when the lights go out and you feel something behind you, you hear it, you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around, there's nothing there...”
― Stephen King

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
― Stephen King

“I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.”
― Stephen King

“Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.”
― Stephen King

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

“That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

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

“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”
― Stephen King

“I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
I aim with my eye.

I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
I shoot with my mind.

I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father.
I kill with my heart.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.”
― Stephen King

“Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly.”
― Stephen King

“Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.”
― Stephen King, Wolves of the Calla

“Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.”
― Stephen King

“You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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