“There is nothing of God or Light in that heartless sound - it is all black winter and dark ice.”
― Stephen King, quote from Cycle of the Werewolf
“To those readers who feel that I didn't know any better, I assert that I did ... but the temptation was simply too great to resist.”
― Stephen King, quote from Cycle of the Werewolf
“...everywhere and nowhere as the March wind begin to rise and moan like a dead Berserker winding his horn, it drifted on the wind, lonely and savage.”
― Stephen King, quote from Cycle of the Werewolf
“Supuso que no habría ninguna ley que prohibiera a un dragón respirar en silencio.”
― Stephen King, quote from Cycle of the Werewolf
“Die Wahrheit ist, daß Marty seinen Vater Herman Coslaw ein wenig nervös macht. Herman lebt in einer Welt äußerst aktiver Kinder, Kinder, die rennen und toben und Basebälle wegschmettern und Staffelwettschwimmen veranstalten. Und während er diese sportlichen Aktivitäten überwacht, schaut er gelegentlich auf und sieht Marty irgendwo in der Nähe in seinem Rollstuhl sitzen und den anderen Kindern zuschauen. Das hatte Herman schon immer nervös gemacht.”
― Stephen King, quote from Cycle of the Werewolf
“Liebe wäre wie Rosen in der Dämmerung
(...)
Liebe ist wie Sterben”
― Stephen King, quote from Cycle of the Werewolf
“Dieses herzlose Lied des Sturmes spottet Gott und dem Licht — es kündet von schwarzem Winter und dunklem Eis.”
― Stephen King, quote from Cycle of the Werewolf
“El amor debe ser como un beso al atardecer..., como el último beso, el auténtico, el verdadero, al término de las historias románticas de la colección Arlequín... ¡El amor debe ser como un aroma de rosas a la hr del crepúsculo!”
― Stephen King, quote from Cycle of the Werewolf
“El amor será como el áspero roce de la mejilla de un hombre que araña y rasca...”
― Stephen King, quote from Cycle of the Werewolf
“Er hatte in Vietnam gekämpft und war mehrfach ausgezeichnet worden; er hatte erfolgreich längere Beziehungen zu einigen energischen Frauen vermieden; und jetzt sah er sich von seinem elfjährigen Neffen in die Enge getrieben.”
― Stephen King, quote from Cycle of the Werewolf
“Nun, das ist unwichtig. Er ist schlauer, als sie denken. Sie sprechen von einem Mann-Wolf, aber sie denken immer nur an den Wolf, nicht an den Mann.”
― Stephen King, quote from Cycle of the Werewolf
“إن الحب جميل، كأنه الزهور في ضوء الشفق.”
― Stephen King, quote from Cycle of the Werewolf
“At the sight of the flag he tasted tears in his throat. In the Stars and Stripes all the passions of his life coalesced to produce the ache with which he loved the United States of America - with which he loved the dirty, plain, honest faces of GIs in the photographs of World War Two, with which he loved the sheets of rain rippling across the green playing field toward the end of the school year, with which he cherished the sense-memories of the summers in his childhood, the many Kansas summers, running the bases, falling harmlessly onto the grass, his head beating with heat, the stunned streets of breezeless afternoons, the thick, palpable shade of colossal elms, the muttering of radios beyond the windowsills, the whirring of redwing blackbirds, the sadness of the grown-ups at their incomprehensible pursuits, the voices carrying over the yards in the dusks that fell later and later, the trains moving through town into the sky. His love for his country, his homeland, was a love for the United States of America in the summertime. ”
― Denis Johnson, quote from Tree of Smoke
“You stole five cars. Instead of going into prison or juvenile detention, you endured nothing more than volunteer work. Now that you are paying back your legal fees, which were not inconsiderable, perhaps you need to suffer more in your service. It's good for the soul."
"Suffering is good for the soul? You're sitting in your cute little office drinking your gross-ass tea that smells like bacon-"
"It's Lapsang souchong."
"It's disgusting. You're drinking disgusting tea and writing homilies in your room-temperature office while I"m dying in there. I don't see you suffering."
"I have suffered. My suffering has ended."
"Did you find Jesus?"
"No, I found you.”
― Tiffany Reisz, quote from The Saint
“I think I'm going to go. I'll see you this weekend. And just so you know, holding grudges gives you premature wrinkles."
"Yeah, well, in this case, not holding them would make you a wrinkle-less fool.”
― Priscilla Glenn, quote from Back to You
“Shards of emotional green shot through Talen’s golden eyes. “He did it for my mate. Eating a virus that might kill him. For my mate.” A pebble skipped across the cement when Talen kicked it. “I don’t know whether to hug him or punch him in the face.”
Dage grinned. “Hell. It’s Kane. Do both.”
Talen returned the grin, then quickly sobered.”
― Rebecca Zanetti, quote from Claimed
“He looked down at his flaccid cock. "Congratulations," he said. "You've just fucked yourself to death.”
― quote from Unbeautifully
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