Abbas

“he thinks that it is good to be a child, but it is also good to be a grownup and able to consider the mystery of childhood...its beliefs and desires.”
― Stephen King, It

“Lions may not think, at least not the way people think... but they see. And when antelopes start away from a waterhole alerted by that dusty-rug scent of approaching death, the cats can observe which one falls to the rear of the pack, maybe because it has a lame leg, maybe because it is just naturally slower or maybe because its sense of danger is less developed. And it might even be possible that some antelopes- and some women want to be brought down.”
― Stephen King, It

“Belief isn’t simply a thing for fair times and bright days, I think. What is belief—what is faith—if you don’t continue in it after failure?” Vin frowned. “Anyone can believe in someone, or something, that always succeeds, Mistress. But failure… ah, now, that is hard to believe in, certainly and truly. Difficult enough to have value, I think.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“He was again struck by her good looks...only it occurred to him now that she might actually be beau tiful. It had never really occurred to him until that moment that there might be beautiful girls outside of the movies, or that he himself might know one. Perhaps it was the bruise that allowed him to see the possibility of her beauty- an essential contrast, a particular flaw which first drew attention to itself and then somehow defined the rest.”
― Stephen King, It