Mark Bulpitt > Mark's Quotes

“Everything is going to be all right. Or, if not, everything is going to be, so let's not worry.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

“That's the thing with time, isn't it? It's not all the same. Some days - some years - some decades - are empty. There is nothing to them. It's just flat water. And then you come across a year, or even a day, or an afternoon. And it is everything. It is the whole thing.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

“History was, is, a one-way street. You have to keep walking forwards, but you don't always need to look ahead. Sometimes you can just look around and be happy right where you are.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

“Whenever I see someone reading a book, especially if it is someone I don't expect, I feel civilisation has become a little safer.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

“That is the whole thing with the future. You don’t know. At some point you have to accept that you don’t know. You have to stop flicking ahead and just concentrate on the page you are on.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

“You understand quite completely that the main lesson of history is: humans don’t learn from history. The twenty-first century could still turn out to be a bad cover version of the twentieth, but what could we do? People’s minds across the world were filling with utopias that could never overlap. It was a recipe for disaster, but, alas, a familiar one. Empathy was waning, as it often had. Peace was made of porcelain, as it always was.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

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

“The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it started.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“Death was no less a miracle than birth.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“You’d be surprised what a person can live with,” Dan said.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“A life without love is like a tree without fruit.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“No great thing is created suddenly.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“She thought that things could not get worse . . . but they always can, and often do.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“Lots of people have got a little of what I call the shining, but mostly it's just a twinkle---the kind of thing that lets em know what the DJ's going to play next on the radio or that the phone's gonna ring pretty soon.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“Learning itself is a present, you know. The best one anybody can give or get.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“The poet Edgar Allan Poe described the false awakening phenomenon long before Carl Jung was born. He wrote, ‘All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.’ Have I answered your question?”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“When the pupil is ready, the teacher will appear. I was your teacher.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“Sometimes we just get it wrong.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“Sometimes parents needed to be protected.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it had started.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“Kindness is a boomerang. You throw it out and you get it back. You had done kind things in the world, and you had been rewarded with kindness in return.”
― Matt Haig, Evie and The Animals

“I think gentleness is a mighty word because you have to be strong of heart to be kind.”
― Abi Elphinstone, Sky Song