Joyland Quotes

“We could argue about what constitutes the creepiest line in pop music, but for me it's early Beatles- John Lennon, actually- singing 'I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man.”
― Stephen King, Joyland

“I was born at night, but it wasn't last night.”
― Stephen King, Joyland

“His mind is like that. On the inside, where he never smiles.”
― Stephen King (Author), Joyland

“Fifty yards ahead of us, a doe had come out of the woods. She stepped delicately over one rusty GS&WM track and onto the railbed, where the weeds and goldenrod were so high they brushed against her sides. She paused there, looking at us calmly, ears cocked forward. What I remember about that moment was the silence. No bird sang, no plane went droning overhead. If my mother had been with us, she'd have had her camera and would have been taking pictures like mad. Thinking of that made me miss her in a way I hadn't in years.”
― Stephen King, Joyland

“I got a good seal, though, pinched his nostrils shut, and breathed down his throat. I did that five or six times before he started breathing on his own again. I stopped the compression to see what would happen, and he kept going.

Hell must have been full that day, that's all I can figure.”
― Stephen King

“I got tired of all the drinking and hen-parties at two in the morning.Some of us actually like to get a little sleep.”
― Stephen King, Joyland

“Quando se trata do passado, todo mundo escreve ficção.”
― Stephen King, The Shining