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Stephen King Quotes - Page 42

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Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.

Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.

Secret, Mystery, Burial

Stephen King (2014). “Pet Sematary”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

It's like many other things in life, Ellie. You keep on the path and all's well. You get off it and the next thing you know you're lost if you're not lucky.

Things In Life, Lucky, Next

Stephen King (2014). “Pet Sematary”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

Running, Daylight, Bleeding

Stephen King (2016). “The Running Man”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.

Running, Responsibility, Pride

Stephen King (2016). “The Running Man”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

Lover," she whispers, and closes her eyes. It falls upon her. Love is like dying.

Fall, Eye, Love Is

And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity.

Mind, May, Horror

Stephen King (2014). “Pet Sematary”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

About halfway through I broke down crying, which I hadn't expected. I was a little ashamed, but only a little;it was her, you see, and she never taxed me with the times that I slipped from the way I thought a man should be...the way I thought I should be, at any rate. A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures, and one without must be among the most miserable, I think, the only true blessing of their lives that they don't know how poorly off they are.

Blessing, Men, Thinking

The good folks mostly win, courage usually triumphs over fear, the family dog hardly ever contracts rabies: these are things I knew at twenty-five, and things I still know now, at the age of 25 x 2. But I know something else as well: there's a place in most of us where the rain is pretty much constant, the shadows are always long, and the woods are full of monsters. It is good to have a voice in which the terrors of such a place can be articulated and its geography partially described, without denying the sunshine and clarity that fill so much of our ordinary lives. (viii)

Dog, Rain, Sunshine

I stood for almost an hour in a line of shuffling, bitter - eyed late mailers (Christmas is such a carefree, low - pressure time - that's one of the things I love about it).

Things I Love, Lines, Pressure

Stephen King (1999). “Bag of Bones”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

For," I said, "a murdered man or woman dies not in God's time, but in Man's. He... or she... is cut short before he... or she... can atone for sin, and so all errors must be forgiven. When you think of it that way, all murderers are a gateway for heaven.

Cutting, Men, Thinking

Stephen King (2011). “Full Dark, No Stars”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.

Running, Eye, Snakes

Stephen King (2014). “Big Driver”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

The wife whose sweetly given reply in the face of any problem would be, "Whatever you think is best, dear." Women, take note: a wife like that never needs to fear bubbling away the last of her life through a cut throat.

Cutting, Thinking, Wife

Stephen King (2011). “Full Dark, No Stars”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

This was the Darker Life, where every truth was written backward.

Written

Stephen King (2011). “Full Dark, No Stars”, p.482, Simon and Schuster

If God rewards us on earth for good deeds—the Old Testament suggests it’s so, and the Puritans certainly believed it—then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones.

Evil, Earth, Deeds

Stephen King (2011). “Full Dark, No Stars”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair ... Come to it any way but lightly.

Writing, Despair, Way

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file from smallest to tallest? What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?

School, Fire, People

I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.

Believe, People, I Believe

Stephen King (2011). “Full Dark, No Stars”, p.368, Simon and Schuster

Because things like this you can only ssay once. And you either get it wrong or right, it's the end either way, because it's too hard to ever try to say again.

Trying, Way, Wrong Or Right

The terror, which would not end for another 28 years-if it ever did end-began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.

Rain, Years, Floating

"It". Book by Stephen King, September 15, 1986.

Nothing is ever lost, Sarah. Nothing that can't be found.

Lost, Found

Stephen King (2016). “The Dead Zone”, p.579, Simon and Schuster

See the BEAR of fearsome size! All the WORLD'S within his eyes. TIME grows thin, the past is a riddle; The TOWER awaits you in the middle.

Eye, Past, Towers

Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life's a fiction and the world's a lie, so put on some Creedence and let's get high.

Life, Lying, Fiction

Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.

Hate, Thinking, World

Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

The dream didn't fade as dreams usually do upon waking.

Dream, Waking, Fades

Stephen King (1999). “Bag of Bones”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

I was being paid to do what I loved, and there's no gig on earth better than that; it's like a license to steal.

Earth, Gigs, Stealing

Stephen King (1999). “Bag of Bones”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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