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“good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere”
― Helen Gurley Brown

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward all the life there is with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand.”
― Stephen King, It

“Maybe there aren't any such things as good friends or bad friends - maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they're always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. Maybe worth dying for too, if that's what has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.”
― Stephen King, It

“Politics always change. Stories never do.”
― Stephen King, It

“Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up”
― Stephen King, It

“Adults are the real monsters.”
― Stephen King, It

“Maybe, in the end it's the voice that tells the stories more than the stories themselves that matters.”
― Stephen King, It

“You could start at a path leading nowhere more fantastic than from your own front steps to the sidewalk, and from there you could go… well, anywhere at all.”
― Stephen King, It

“In this universe there might grow roses which sing.”
― Stephen King, It

“When I die, I guess I’ll go with a library card in one hand and an OVERDUE stamp in the other. Well, maybe there’s worse ways.”
― Stephen King, It

“Even at eleven, he had observed that things turned out right a ridiculous amount of the time.”
― Stephen King, It

“I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams.”
― Stephen King, It

“And, of course, one of the great true facts of the world is this: for every old-timer who dies, there’s a new old-timer coming along. And a good story never dies; it is always passed down.”
― Stephen King, It

“If you find a footnote, ” a library-science prof once told a class of which I was a part, “step on its head and kill it before it can breed.”
― Stephen King, It

“The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“But see that you get on. That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“Tough old world, baby. If you're not bolted together tightly, you're gonna shake, rattle, and roll before you turn thirty.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“Living by your wits is always knowing where the wasps are.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“You know, schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It’s accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“Human Nature Baby, grab it and growl.”
― Stephen King - The Shining, The Shining

“Children have to grow into their imaginations like a pair of oversized shoes.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“That’s your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.”
― Stephen King, Carrie

“When all else fails, give up and go to the library.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“...stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“We did not ask for this room or this music. We were invited in. Therefore, because the dark surrounds us, let us turn our faces to the light. Let us endure hardship to be grateful for plenty. We have been given pain to be astounded by joy. We have been given life to deny death. We did not ask for this room or this music. But because we are here, let us dance.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63