“I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.”
― Stephen King, quote from Christine
“Love is old slaughterer. Love is not blind. Love is a canibal with extremely acute vision. Love is insectile, it is always hungry”
― Stephen King, quote from Christine
“If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.”
― Stephen King, quote from Christine
“I always like to see enlightened parents like that; it gives me hope for the future.”
― Stephen King, quote from Christine
“As soon as you have a child, you see your own tombstone”
― Stephen King, quote from Christine
“I once heard about some millionaire who had a stolen Rembrandt in his basement where no one but him could see it. I could understand that guy. I don't mean that Arnie was a Rembrandt, or even a world-class wit, but I could understand the attraction of knowing about something good ... something that was good but still a secret.”
― Stephen King, quote from Christine
“Maybe that’s one of the ways you recognize really lonely people . . . they can always think of something neat to do on rainy days. You can always call them up. They’re always home. Fucking always. For”
― Stephen King, quote from Christine
“His single-minded purpose. His unending fury.”
― Stephen King, quote from Christine
“I felt as conspicuous as a baby whale in a goldfish pond.”
― Stephen King, quote from Christine
“Love is the enemy. Yes...the poets continually and sometimes willfully mistake love. Love is the old slaughterer. Love is not blind. Love is a cannibal with extremely acute vision. Love is insectile; it is always hungry.”
― Stephen King, quote from Christine
“I had a moment to wonder just what he did at David Emerson's, which really was where Libertyville's elite bought. Was he a salesman? I could see him showing some smart young lady around, saying, Here's one fuck of a nice couch, ma'am, and look at this goddam settee, we sure didn't have nothing like that on Guadalcanal when those fucking stoned-out Japs came at us with their Maxwell House swords.”
― Stephen King, quote from Christine
“There was a momentary added weight in my stomach, almost like a sickness. There’s a name for that sort of sickness. I think it’s called falling in love with your best friend’s girl. “You’ve”
― Stephen King, quote from Christine
“Leigh left college to be married, and then it was goodbye Drew and hello Taos. I went to her wedding with hardly a qualm. Nice fellow. Drove a Honda Civic. No problems there.”
― Stephen King, quote from Christine
“Why doesn’t Arnie ever come over anymore, Mom?” Ellie asked. “Did he and Dennis have a fight?” “No, honey,” my mother answered. “I don’t think so. But when friends get older .. . sometimes they grow apart.” “That’s never going to happen to me,” Ellie said, with all the awesome conviction of the just-turned-fifteen. I”
― Stephen King, quote from Christine
“I woke up. I didn’t scream. That night I kept the scream in my throat. Just barely. I sat up in my bed, a cold puddle of moonlight caught in a lapful of sheet, and I thought, Died suddenly. That night I didn’t get back to sleep so quickly.”
― Stephen King, quote from Christine
“إن الحب يبطئ زمن ردّ الفعل عند المرء ويسكت إحساسه بالخطر”
― Stephen King, quote from Christine
“It was also easy to imagine the good smells, the laughter as they sat down. Easy to imagine . . . but probably a mistake. It”
― Stephen King, quote from Christine
“Aus unerklärlichen Gründen war Arnie plötzlich auf etwas gestoßen, was er wirklich begehrte. Und gnade Gott allen, die ihm dabei im Weg standen.”
― Stephen King, quote from Christine
“Seine hysterischen Worte lösten sich abermals in Schluchzer auf. Es waren nur noch Tränen, kein Hass mehr.”
― Stephen King, quote from Christine
“Mein Junge, Sie sind wahrscheinlich noch zu jung, um Weisheiten anderer schon zu beherzigen, aber ich sage es Ihnen trotzdem: Liebe ist ein Feind.« Er nickte bedächtig. »Ja. Die Dichter interpretieren die Liebe immer wieder falsch, einige sogar absichtlich. Die Liebe ist ein Schlächter. Liebe ist nicht blind. Die Liebe ist ein außerordentlich scharfsichtiger Kannibale. Die Liebe ist gefräßig wie eine Heuschrecke, immer hungrig, niemals satt.«”
― Stephen King, quote from Christine
“Und darüber bewegten sich seine Augen ruhelos von einer Straßenseite zur anderen, blickten misstrauisch hinaus in eine Welt, die beherrscht wurde von unfähigen Autofahrern, blödsinnigen Fußgängern und allgemeinem Schwachsinn.”
― Stephen King, quote from Christine
“Regina konnte sich nichts Schlimmeres vorstellen, und dass es ihrem Sohn offensichtlich vollkommen gleich war, ob sich jemand über ihn totlachte oder nicht, brachte sie nur noch mehr in Rage.”
― Stephen King, quote from Christine
“Ein bisschen Mogelei ist immer noch besser als eine Menge Wahnsinn.”
― Stephen King, quote from Christine
“Sie machten beide so bitter ernste und grimmige Gesichter, dass sie aussahen wie Dideldum und Dideldei, wenn Franz Kafka über sie geschrieben hätte.”
― Stephen King, quote from Christine
“You’re smiling again,” Regina said. “I was just thinking about how much I love you both,” Arnie said. His father looked at him, surprised and touched; there was a soft gleam in his mother’s eyes that might have been tears. They really believed it. The shitters. •”
― Stephen King, quote from Christine
“If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die. The”
― Stephen King, quote from Christine
“I find that the more I dislike adults, the more apt I am to call them Sir. “What?”
― Stephen King, quote from Christine
“I find that the more I dislike adults, the more apt I am to call them”
― Stephen King, quote from Christine
“I sat there behind the wheel of my car, not sure what I should do, wishing I was someplace else, anyplace else, trying on shoes at Thom McAn’s, filling out a credit application in a discount store, standing in front of a pay toilet stall with diarrhea and no dime. Anyplace, man. It didn’t have to be Monte Carlo. Mostly I sat there wishing I was older.”
― Stephen King, quote from Christine
“I was scared,” she said, and then uttered a shaky little laugh. “I guess you don’t know what scared is until one of your kids screams in the dark.” “Ugh,”
― Stephen King, quote from Christine
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“I don't know what being in love with someone is supposed to feel like," Tyler admits with a breathy laugh, "but if being in love means thinking about someone every second of every day... If being in love means your entire mood shifts when they're around... If being in love means you'd do anything and everything for them," he murmurs, "then I am endlessly in love with you.”
― Estelle Maskame, quote from Did I Mention I Need You? (Did I Mention I Love You
“The crowd laughs at the parody. Weep, ladies, over your own fate, when you see the misery of imprisoned matter, of tortured matter which does not know what it is and why it is, nor where the gesture may lead that has been imposed on it forever.
The crowd laughs. Do you understand the terrible sadism, the exhilarating, demiurgical cruelty of that laughter? Yet we should weep, ladies, at our own fate, when we see that misery of violated matter, against which a terrible wrong had been committed.”
― Bruno Schulz, quote from The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories
“There were a series of closing kisses, goodbye kisses, kisses placed like lids on boxes—then the lid would pop off and need to be replaced. There, this is the final kiss—no, this is the final kiss. This one is, it really is. And now I’m just kissing that kiss good night.”
― Miranda July, quote from The First Bad Man
“Beyond the marketplace, nearly all human relationships involve give-and-take, and all such relationships break down when one or both parties do too much taking and not enough giving. In fact, the tension between individual and collective interest arises not only between us but within us. As noted above, complex cells have been cooperating for about a billion years. Nevertheless, it is not uncommon for some of the cells in an animal’s body to start pulling for themselves instead of for the team, a phenomenon known as cancer.”
― Joshua D. Greene, quote from Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
“A tired operator and an energized monitor create a problematic imbalance in the mind. As the monitor searches for forbidden content, it continuously brings to mind what it is searching for. Neuroscientists have shown that the brain is constantly processing the forbidden content just outside of conscious awareness. The result: You become primed to think, feel, or do whatever you are trying to avoid.”
― Kelly McGonigal, quote from The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It
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