“But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heared clearly in the dreams of later years.”
― Stephen King, quote from Cujo
“We'll just have to get along. That's what people do, you know? They just get along. And try to help each other.”
― Stephen King, quote from Cujo
“...it was more like bleeding than crying.”
― Stephen King, quote from Cujo
“It would perhaps not be amiss to point out that he had always tried to be a good dog. He had tried to do all the things his MAN and his WOMAN, and most of all his BOY, had asked or expected of him. He would have died for them, if that had been required. He had never wanted to kill anybody. He had been struck by something, possibly destiny, or fate, or only a degenerative nerve disease called rabies. Free will was not a factor.”
― Stephen King, quote from Cujo
“All the logic in the world could not blunt the pain. Logic could not blunt her terrible sense of personal failure. Only time would do those things, and time would do an imperfect job.”
― Stephen King, quote from Cujo
“...it was amazing, wasn't it, how bad you could hurt when there was nothing physically wrong.”
― Stephen King, quote from Cujo
“The world was full of monsters, and they were all allowed to bite the innocent and the unwary”
― Stephen King, quote from Cujo
“There is no bad time for good news.”
― Stephen King, quote from Cujo
“Maybe he was as mad as he said he was, but she could see only a species of miserable fright. Suddenly, like the thud of a boxing glove on her mouth, she saw how close to the edge of everything he was. The agency was tottering, that was bad enough, and now, on top of that, like a grisly dessert following a putrid main course, his marriage was tottering too. She felt a rush of warmth for him, for this man she had sometimes hated and had, for the last three hours at least, feared. A kind of epiphany filled her. Most of all, she hoped he would always think he had been as mad as hell, and not . . . not the way his face said he felt.”
― Stephen King, quote from Cujo
“The two of them had discovered it was all right to open the closets...as long as you didn't poke too far back in them. Because things might still be lurking there, ready to bite.”
― Stephen King, quote from Cujo
“surely they had passed the worst. All the luck had been against them, but sooner or later even the worst luck changes.”
― Stephen King, quote from Cujo
“If loyalty was toilet paper... we'd be hard-pressed to wipe our asses, old buddy.”
― Stephen King, quote from Cujo
“He tilted back in the decaying lawn chair, almost went over on his back, and used up some more of his screwdriver. The screwdriver was in a glass he had gotten free from a McDonald's restaurant. There was some sort of purple animal on the glass. Something called a Grimace. Gary ate a lot of his meals at the Castle Rock McDonald's, where you could still get a cheap hamburger. Hamburgers were good. But as for the Grimace... and Mayor McCheese... and Monsieur Ronald Fucking McDonald... Gary Pervier didn't give a shit for any of them.”
― Stephen King, quote from Cujo
“Abrakadabra, und alles verwandelt sich in einen großen Haufen Scheiße.”
― Stephen King, quote from Cujo
“Todo el espectro del mundo auditivo era suyo. Oía las campanadas del cielo y los ásperos gritos que surgían del infierno. En su locura, oía lo real y lo irreal.”
― Stephen King, quote from Cujo
“Charity had discovered there were things you didn't want to tell. Shame wasn't the reason. Sometimes it was just better-kinder- to keep up a front”
― Stephen King, quote from Cujo
“All the luck had been against them, but sooner or later even the worst luck changes”
― Stephen King, quote from Cujo
“Aspiraba el olor de la locura en un viento que aún no había llegado.”
― Stephen King, quote from Cujo
“Trató de pensar con coherencia y
simplemente no pudo
hacerlo.”
― Stephen King, quote from Cujo
“¿Por qué no podía enfadarse? ¿Por qué tenía que estar tan cochinamente asustado?”
― Stephen King, quote from Cujo
“Una absurda palabra antigua acudió a su mente. Burlado, pensó. He sido burlado.”
― Stephen King, quote from Cujo
“Él le había hecho daño, le había hecho mucho daño, y el mundo era un terrible embrollo de sensaciones e impresiones...”
― Stephen King, quote from Cujo
“Tiempo, pensó. Tiempo y perspectiva. Hay que darle eso. Si le obligas, le perderás con toda seguridad.”
― Stephen King, quote from Cujo
“Rostros. Voces. Habitaciones. Escenas. Libros. El terror de este momento, pensando VOY A MORIR...”
― Stephen King, quote from Cujo
“En la oscuridad no parecía importar que casi todas las respuestas fueran absurdas.”
― Stephen King, quote from Cujo
“Había tenido ocasión de echar una buena mirada a su vida y había visto que todo había sido un decorado teatral y falsas apariencias.”
― Stephen King, quote from Cujo
“Donna tuvo la sensación de que ambos habían llegado a conocerse íntimamente y que no podría haber descanso ni término para ninguno de los dos hasta que hubieran explorado aquella terrible relación y hubieran llegado a una conclusión definitiva.”
― Stephen King, quote from Cujo
“¿Por qué?. ¿Por qué había podido ocurrir algo así?. ¿Cómo habían podido confabularse tantos acontecimientos juntos?.”
― Stephen King, quote from Cujo
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“But then, the flames of a fire are not made less painful by the knowledge that others are burning with you.”
― Karen Maitland, quote from Company of Liars
“The wheel of the world swings through the same phases again and again.”
― Rudyard Kipling, quote from The Man Who Would Be King
“Vanity, right?" Nash reappeared in the living room with an open bag of potato chips. "I nominate my venerable brother. He likes to play hero, and one look at him should establish the vanity angle."
"Nash!" I really shouldn't have been surprised by the dig. But I was.
"What?" He raised one brow at me in challenge. "It's okay to call me jealous, but not to call him vain?"
"Awareness of one's obvious advantages doesn't imply vanity," Tod insisted calmly.
Nash turned on him. "Does it imply narcissism?"
Tod huffed. "This coming from the guy who owns more hair products than his girlfriend.”
― Rachel Vincent, quote from With All My Soul
“Jacks stood beside her. Instead of saying anything, she felt his fingers trace up her palm and then lace into hers. He had taken her hand
before, quickly and for functional reasons—usually to drag her off to someplace she didn’t want to go—but he had never held her hand. Not the way
couples did in parks or lovers did in old movies. Maddy stood there and felt the heat of his grip. It made her think of that first night in the diner, when
they had talked about pretend memories and she had felt so connected to him.”
― Scott Speer, quote from Immortal City
“Snow and soot covered the ancient tree's broken branches and seared bark. It wasn't dead, not quite yet. Here and there tiny shoots of green struggled to emerge, but they weren't doing well. The end was near.
A shadow loomed, and a creature settled into the drifts, and old, wounded thing of the skies, as near death as the tree.
Pinions drooping, it laboriously began building a nest--a place of dying. Stick by stick, it pecked among the ruined wood on the ground, piling the bits higher until it was clear that it was not a nest at all.
It was a pyre.
The bloody, dying thing settled in atop the kindling, and crooned soft music unlike anything ever heard before. A glow began to build, surrounding the beast soon in a rich purple lambience. Blue flames burst forth.
And the tree seemed to respond. Aged, ruined branches curled forward toward the heat, like an old man warming his hands. Snow shivered and fell, the green patches grew and began to fill the air with the fragrance of renewal
It was not the creature on the pyre that was reborn, and even in sleep, that surprised Gordon. The great bird was consumed, leaving only bones.
But the tree blossomed, and from its flowering branches things uncurled and drifted off into the air.
He stared in wonderment when he saw that they were balloons, airplanes, and rocket ships. Dreams.
They floated away in all directions, and the air was filled with hope.”
― David Brin, quote from The Postman
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