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“Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts”
― Anonymous

“And now, all these years later, it seemed to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended.”
― Stephen King, Wizard and Glass

“If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead or wishing you were.”
― Stephen King, Under the Dome

“Your man Jesus seems to me a bit of a son of a bitch when it comes to women,´Roland said. ´Was He ever married?´
The corners of Callahan's mouth quirked. ´No´ he said, ´but His girlfriend was a whore.´
´Well,´ Roland said, ´that's a start.´”
― Stephen King, Wolves of the Calla

“The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.”
― Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

“That's clear about the end of my other life, how I kept saying 'I can do this' even when I knew I couldn't, even when I knew I was fucked, I was dead ass fucked in the pouring rain. ”
― Stephen King, Duma Key

“We never cease wanting what we want, whether it's good for us or not.”
― Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars

“God always punishes us for what we can't imagine.”
― Stephen King, Duma Key

“You just couldn't get hold of the things you had done and turn them right again. Such power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to men and women, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“I realized the shells were talking in a voice I recognized. I should have; it was my own. Had I always known that? I suppose I had. On some level, unless we're mad, I think most of us know the various voices of our own imaginations.

And of our memories, of course. They have voices, too. Ask anyone who has ever lost a limb or a child or a long-cherished dream. Ask anyone who blames himself for a bad decision, usually made in a raw instant (an instant that is most commonly red). Our memories have voices, too. Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark.”
― Stephen King, Duma Key

“...it was more like bleeding than crying.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower

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

“He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it set in again.”
― Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars

“This is how we go on: one day at a time, one meal at a time, one pain at a time, one breath at a time. Dentists go on one root-canal at a time; boat-builders go on one hull at a time. If you write books, you go on one page at a time. We turn from all we know and all we fear. We study catalogues, watch football games, choose Sprint over AT&T. We count the birds in the sky and will not turn from the window when we hear the footsteps behind us as something comes up the hall; we say yes, I agree that clouds often look like other things - fish and unicorns and men on horseback - but they are really only clouds. Even when the lightening flashes inside them we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, the next pain, the next breath, the next page. This is how we go on.”
― Stephen King, Bag of Bones

“Sometimes you have to be a high-riding bitch to survive. Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold onto.”
― Stephen King, Dolores Claiborne/Insomnia

“It's a cash and carry world. Sometimes you pay a little. Mostly it's a lot. Sometimes, it's everything you have.”
― Stephen King, Storm of the Century

“People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.”
― Stephen King, Bag of Bones/the Green Mile/the Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

“They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone”
― Stephen King, Wizard and Glass

“Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“How to Draw a Picture (XII)

Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life.”
― Stephen King

“I've spread my legs in the backseat in a creative sense quite a few times.”
― Stephen King

“The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.”
― Stephen King, Bag of Bones

“For every mother who ever cursed God for her child dead in the road, for every father who ever cursed the man who sent him away from the factory with no job, for every child who was ever born to pain and asked why, this is the answer. Our lives are like these things I build. Sometimes they fall down for a reason, sometimes they fall down for no reason at all.”
― Stephen King, The Drawing of the Three

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

“It was not fair, it was not fair, it was not fair. So cried his child's heart, and then his child's heart died a little. For that is also the way of the world.”
― Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole

“You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.”
― Stephen King

“Then, instead of telling her that where there was life there was hope, or to let a smile be her umbrella, or that it was always darkest just before the dawn, or anything else that had just lately fallen out of the dog's ass, she simply held her. Because sometimes only holding was best. That was one of the things she had taught that man whose last name she had taken for her own--that sometimes it was best to be quiet; sometimes it was best to just shut your everlasting mouth and hang on, hang on, hang on.”
― Stephen King, Lisey's Story

“I love you too much to lie to you, Lisey. I love you with all that passes for my heart. I suspect that kind of all-out love becomes a burden to a woman in time, but it's the only kind I have to give. I think we're going to be quite a wealthy couple in terms of money, but I'll almost certainly be an emotional pauper all my life. I've got the money coming, but as for the rest I've got just enough for you, and I won't ever dirty or dilute it with lies. Not with the words I say, not with the ones I hold back.”
― Stephen King