“Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter. ”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“If I kept saying it; if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say 'I can do this' even when you know you can't.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“God always punishes us for what we can't imagine.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“Art should be a place of hope.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“That's clear about the end of my other life, how I kept saying 'I can do this' even when I knew I couldn't, even when I knew I was fucked, I was dead ass fucked in the pouring rain. ”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“Life is like Friday on a soap opera. It gives you the illusion that everything is going to wrap up, and then the same old shit starts up on Monday.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“I realized the shells were talking in a voice I recognized. I should have; it was my own. Had I always known that? I suppose I had. On some level, unless we're mad, I think most of us know the various voices of our own imaginations.
And of our memories, of course. They have voices, too. Ask anyone who has ever lost a limb or a child or a long-cherished dream. Ask anyone who blames himself for a bad decision, usually made in a raw instant (an instant that is most commonly red). Our memories have voices, too. Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“If you want to play, you gotta pay.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“The truth is in the details.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“In the end we always wear out our worries. That’s what Wireman says.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“The only religions I don't like are the ones that insist their God is bigger than your God.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“I win, you win. You win, I win. The gun, I win. The fruit, you win. I win, you win.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“Make-up covers a multitude of sins.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“Successful rebellions always begin in secret.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“I just didn't want her to get hurt. I thought she was going to be. But everyone gets their share, don't they? Sure. Pow, in the nose. Pow, in the eye. Pow, below the belt, down you go, and the ref just went out for a hot dog.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“In the end, we wear out our worries.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“How do we remember to remember? That's a question I've asked myself often since my time on Duma Key, often in the small hours of the morning, looking up into the absence of light, remembering absent friends. Sometimes in those little hours I think about the horizon. You have to establish the horizon. You have to mark the white. A simple enough act, you might say, but any act that re-makes the world is heroic. Or so I've come to believe.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“Our memories have voices, too. Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“The loss of memory isn't always the problem; sometimes--maybe even often--it's the solution.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“if you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will be lost. The truth isn't always pretty.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“You got style, you got class, you got the lips to kiss my ass.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“Do the day and let the day do you.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“Stay hungry. It worked for Michelangelo, it worked for Picasso, and it works for a hundred thousand artists who do it not for love (although that might play a part) but in order to put food on the table. If you want to translate the world, you need to use your appetites. Does this surprise you? It shouldn’t. There’s no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging. Hunger is the piston of art.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
“Are you still forgetting things?" "I don't know, I can't remember," I said.”
― Stephen King, quote from Duma Key
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“the Hall of Offerings. Isaac motioned to a wall relief covered in hieroglyphic writing. "Let me show you something I discovered recently," Isaac said. "This hieroglyphic register is a song to Augustus, King of Egypt, heralding him as 'Lord of the Dance,' meaning 'Lord of Life.' I will translate: "The King of Egypt "Pharaoh comes to dance "He comes to sing "See how he dances "See how he sings… "I remember Isaac looked at me to gauge my reaction. In truth I was spellbound. He went on to say, 'The song of Augustus eventually spread to Medieval England where a carol, called "Lord of the Dance," was sung at Christmas and is sung to this day.”
― Kenneth Atchity, quote from The Messiah Matrix
“What is the ultimate good in the good news? It all ends in one thing: God himself. All the words of the gospel lead to him, or they are not gospel.
Salvation is not good news if it only saves from hell and not for God.
Forgiveness is not good news if it only gives relief from guilt and doesn't open the way to God.
Justification is not good news if it only makes us legally acceptable to God but doesn't bring fellowship with God.
Redemption is not good news if it only liberates us from bondage but doesn't bring us to God.
Adoption is not good news if it only puts us in the Father's family but not in his arms.
This is crucial. Many people seem to embrace the good news without embracing God. There is no sure evidence that we have a new heart just because we want to escape hell. That's a perfectly natural desire, not a supernatural one.
It doesn't take a new heart to want the psychological relief of forgiveness, or the removal of God's wrath, or the inheritance of God's world. All these things are understandable without any spiritual change. You don't need to be born again to want these things.
The devils want them.
It is not wrong to want them. Indeed it is folly not to.
But the evidence that we have been changed is that we want these things because they bring us to the enjoyment of God. This is the greatest thing Christ died for. "Christ also suffered once for sin, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God”
― John Piper, quote from The Passion of Jesus Christ
“If others neither have goods we want nor can perform services we need, we make sure that they are at a safe distance and close ourselves off from them so that their emaciated and tortured bodies can make no inordinate claims on us.”
― Miroslav Volf, quote from Exclusion & Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation
“No man wants his wife to be a woman that other men don't desire....But every man wants his wife to be a woman that other men don't get.”
― Winston Graham, quote from The Four Swans
“Am I just prey to you?”
“Some things are worth chasing.”
“Some things can’t be caught.”
His finger outlined my jaw as if he were putting me to memory.
“I have spent a lifetime being chased by females, and I know what it means to run. There’s something different about you, Silver. You incite the hunter in me.”
My saddened eyes wandered up to his, and I made a promise I didn’t know if I could keep. “I’ll never love again, Logan. If that’s what you’re asking, then I won’t give it to a man that I can’t trust with my life and my heart. You kill without regret, and I never know from one minute to the next what your intentions are. I don’t want an indecisive man in my life any more than a controlling one.”
A torch lit behind those eyes, burning bright as he leaned in and whispered softly beside my ear. “Sweet little raven, dusted in sugar—I will possess your heart.”
― Dannika Dark, quote from Twist
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