“Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.”
― Stephen King, quote from Dreamcatcher
“Memory is the basis of every journey.”
― Stephen King, quote from Dreamcatcher
“You grew up, became a man, had to adjust to taking less than you hoped for; you discovered the dream-machine had a big OUT OF ORDER sign on it.”
― Stephen King, quote from Dreamcatcher
“Time slowed and reality bent; on and on the eggman went.”
― Stephen King, quote from Dreamcatcher
“But now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal.”
― Stephen King, quote from Dreamcatcher
“Pride was the belt you used to hold your pants up when you had no pants.”
― Stephen King, quote from Dreamcatcher
“Keeping up the fiction. You have to keep it up, sometimes, no matter how you feel.”
― Stephen King, quote from Dreamcatcher
“Anyone who lives in Boston knows that it’s March that’s the cruelest, holding out a few days of false hope and then gleefully hitting you with the shit.”
― Stephen King, quote from Dreamcatcher
“Спи по-малко, храни се по-малко и по-малко се смее. Мрак се е промъкнал и в собствения му живот — сякаш гледа света през същия поляризиран филтър — и той се улавя, че няма нищо против. Приглушената светлина не дразни очите.”
― Stephen King, quote from Dreamcatcher
“After that we're going to be heroes. Not because we want to, but because there are no other options.”
― Stephen King, quote from Dreamcatcher
“Same shit, different day, he thinks, but now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness that feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal.”
― Stephen King, quote from Dreamcatcher
“When you thought about it, it was sort of a blue-eyed wonder that women could love the best of them, let alone the rest of them.”
― Stephen King, quote from Dreamcatcher
“The body is either stupid or infinitely wise, but in either case it is spared the terrible witchery of thought; it only knows how to stand its ground and fight until it can fight no more.”
― Stephen King, quote from Dreamcatcher
“Perhaps all the science-fiction stories he read about time travel when he was a teenager had it right: you can’t change the past, no matter how you try.”
― Stephen King, quote from Dreamcatcher
“He will be with his friends, and that always feels like coming home.”
― Stephen King, quote from Dreamcatcher
“What really bugs Henry about Barry, he supposes, is Barry’s complacency. His inner assurance that there is no need to change his self-destructive behavior, let alone search for its roots.”
― Stephen King, quote from Dreamcatcher
“Jonesy is in his third-floor John Jay College office, looking out at his little slice of Boston and thinking how wrong T. S. Eliot had been to call April the cruelest month just because an itinerant carpenter from Nazareth supposedly got himself crucified then for fomenting rebellion. Anyone who lives in Boston knows that it’s March that’s the cruelest, holding out a few days of false hope and then gleefully hitting you with the shit.”
― Stephen King, quote from Dreamcatcher
“Henry did not want to be fixed, was somehow convinced that the fix would be a lie, something that would lessen him.”
― Stephen King, quote from Dreamcatcher
“The sleep you didn't get one night sometimes came to you on the next, and then it came like a lover.”
― Stephen King, quote from Dreamcatcher
“Once things were different, but now they're the same. He reckons he can live with that; for a guy like him, the rule of thumb is just SSDD, and so fucking what. You grew up, became a man, had to adjust to taking less than you hoped for; you discovered the dream-machine had a big OUT OF ORDER sign on it.”
― Stephen King, quote from Dreamcatcher
“When you fall, Barry, it's going to be like the fall of Babel in the desert. The people who see you go down will talk about it for years. Man, you'll shake the dishes right off the shelves -”
― Stephen King, quote from Dreamcatcher
“Doctor,' he says, 'I just fucked up.
'How did you do that, Henry?
'I told a patient the truth.
'If we know the truth, Henry, does it not set us free?
'No', he replies to himself, looking up at the ceiling. 'Not in the slightest.”
― Stephen King, quote from Dreamcatcher
“The guy was tall, and possessed one of those earnest faces Henry associated with middle management.”
― Stephen King, quote from Dreamcatcher
“Henry tipped his head back, flared his nostrils, and sniffed gently — he had a memory, both clear and absurd, of being in Maurice's a month ago with his ex-wife, smelling the wine the sommelier had just poured, seeing Rhonda there across the table and thinking: 'We sniff the wine, dogs sniff each other's assholes, and it all comes to about the same.”
― Stephen King, quote from Dreamcatcher
“It is the laugh of a man in the grip of fond recall- the sight of a sunset, the firm feel of a woman’s breast through a thin silk shirt (not that Barry has, in Henry’s estimation, ever felt such a thing), or the packed warmth of beach sand.”
― Stephen King, quote from Dreamcatcher
“But that's enough. Fun is fun and done is done. Turn out their lights, beautiful.”
― Stephen King, quote from Dreamcatcher
“Hearts were made to be broken and minds were made to be changed...”
― Stephen King, quote from Dreamcatcher
“Oyendo reir a Duddits Cavell, volvian a creer los cuentos chinos de toda la vida: que era buena la vida, que tenia sentido vivir, tanto de niños, como de adultos. Que ademas de oscuridad, habia luz.”
― Stephen King, quote from Dreamcatcher
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“...Don't tell me he's bisexual! Don't tell me this is more of the guy in the hallway! Don't tell me he wants us to have it off together, Philip Roth fucking Philip Roth! That, I'm afraid, is a form of masturbation too fancy even for me.”
― Philip Roth, quote from Operation Shylock: A Confession
“In a sense, the business arrangement was a bit like a man leaving his wife for the woman he’s been having an affair with. The fact that the same man decides to then cheat on the woman he originally cheated with should surprise no one, least of all the woman herself.”
― Vince Flynn, quote from Act of Treason
“The girl was huddled against the door on her side now, all folded in upon herself like an old woman, or like a child who'd fallen asleep on a long journey; she heard the sounds of him as if they were musical notes, each distinct and clear, and her shoulders moved slightly beneath her shirt, and her hands were jammed between her knees.”
― Anna Quindlen, quote from Blessings
“But when she was finished running away, when she just went on, what would she put in his place?”
― Alice Munro, quote from Runaway
“I suppose a better sister would have set about weaving him a shirt from nettles and throwing it over his furred-over body so that he could be released from his enchantment and resume his human form. I give him some cat food instead.”
― Kate Atkinson, quote from Human Croquet
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