Colin Maretsky

“Hallorann’s testicles turned into two small wrinkled sacs filled with shaved ice.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“I aint heard no voice, he said. When it stops, said Tobin, you’ll know you’ve heard it all your life. Is that right? Aye. The kid turned the leather in his lap. The expriest watched him. At night, said Tobin, when the horses are grazing and the company is asleep, who hears them grazing? Dont nobody hear them if they’re asleep. Aye. And if they cease their grazing who is it that wakes? Every man. Aye, said the expriest. Every man.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

“When we grow up, concepts gradually get easier and we leave the images to the poets”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“To die from 'a draining away of one's strength caused by extreme old age' was in Montaigne's day a 'rare, singular and extraordinary death.' Nowadays we assume it as our right.”
― Julian Barnes, Nothing to Be Frightened Of