Stephanie > Stephanie's Quotes

“Half of life is fucking up, the other half is dealing with it.”
― Henry Rollins

“It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness.”
― Joe Hill, Horns

“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”
― Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
― Jack Kerouac

“Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I'd made before it.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”
― Charles Bukowski

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it up to forced consciousness expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

“Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Curse of Lono

“If I look back I am lost.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

“there is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.”
― Stephen King, Pet Sematary

“Let it eat her; let it beat her. It could do both. But she would not beat herself.”
― Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

“Fear cuts deeper than swords.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“We look up at the same stars and see such different things.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords