Quotes from Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

“Black as night and as beautiful as forever.”
― Stephen King, quote from Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

“This is nine! Nine! This is nine! Nine! This is ten! Ten! We have killed your friends! Every friend is now dead! This is six! Six!"
[...]
"Eighteen! This is now eighteen! Take cover when the siren sounds! This is four! Four!"
[...]
"Five! This is five! Ignore the siren! Even if you leave this room, you can never leave this room! Eight! This is eight!"
[...]
"Six!' the phone screamed. 'Six, this is six, this is goddam fucking SIX!”
― Stephen King, quote from Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

“Luck was a joke. Even good luck was just bad luck with its hair combed.”
― Stephen King, quote from Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

“Ka was a wheel; it was also a net from which none ever escaped.”
― Stephen King, quote from Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

“But in the wake of 'Bullet,' all the guys wanted to know was, 'How's it doing? How's it selling?' How to tell them I didn't give a flying fuck how it was doing in the marketplace, that what I cared about was how it was doing in the reader's heart?”
― Stephen King, quote from Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

“A cat won't curry favor even if it's in their best interests to do so. A cat can't be a hypocrite. If more preachers were like cats, this would be a more religious country.”
― Stephen King, quote from Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

“A library card is good to have, you can never have too much ID.”
― Stephen King, quote from Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

“Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.”
― Stephen King, quote from Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

“It might be that the biggest division in the world isn't men and women but folks who like cats and folks who like dogs" - (L.T.'s Theory of Pets)”
― Stephen King, quote from Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

“...writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.”
― Stephen King, quote from Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

“When creative people do their best work, they're hardly ever in charge, they're just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut yelling wheee.”
― Stephen King, quote from Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

“Roland of Gilead responded as he ever had and ever would when such useless, mystifying questions were raised: 'Ka.”
― Stephen King, quote from Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

“If something got you to turn off T.V. , it's a total success”
― Stephen King, quote from Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

“But who can foresee such things? None of us can predict the final outcomes of our actions, and few of us even try; most of us just do what we do to prolong a moment's pleasure or to stop the pain. And even when we act for the noblest reasons, the last link of the chain all too often drips with someone's blood.”
― Stephen King, quote from Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

“Absence may or may not make the heart grow fonder, but it certainly freshens the eye.”
― Stephen King, quote from Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

“A broken spoon may become a fork.”
― Stephen King, quote from Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

“Say, darling, I'm giving you this wonderful present, it's a machine that eats at one end and shits out the other, it's going to run for fifteen years, give or take, merry fucking Christmas.”
― Stephen King, quote from Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

“Any fool who can pucker is apt to whistle past the graveyard.”
― Stephen King, quote from Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

“Eventual, as Pug used to say. When he wanted to say something was really good, he's never say it was awesome, like most people do; he'd say it was eventual. How funny is that? The old Pugmeister. I wonder how he's doing.”
― Stephen King, quote from Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

“That voice didn’t have logic on its side, but it didn’t need to. It had good lungs and just outscreamed logic.”
― Stephen King, quote from Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

“On some level I believed him completely, as we always believe on some level, the worst thing our hearts can imagine”
― Stephen King, quote from Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

“I never read the paper myself. Why bother? It's the same old shit day in and day out, dictators beating the ching-chong out of people weaker than they are, men in uniforms beating the ching-chong out of soccer balls or footballs, politicians kissing babies and kissing ass.”
― Stephen King, quote from Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

“All I wanted was eighteen holes of golf on Saturday afternoon, and instead I turned into Snow White with hair on my chest.”
― Stephen King, quote from Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

“No me interesa la credibilidad, sino la libertad, y he descubierto que escribir puede proporcionarla. ”
― Stephen King, quote from Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

“I opened the door of the Mercedes and got in. Man, that smell. It’s leather, but not just leather. You know how, in Monopoly, there’s a Get-Out-of-Jail-Free card? When you’re rich enough to afford a car that smells like Mr. Sharpton’s gray Mercedes, you must have a Get-Out-of-Everything-Free card.”
― Stephen King, quote from Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

“Tell you something, my friend — if I worked hard and really wanted it, there might be a real Rembrandt on my wall someday.
Sure.
In a job like this, there is nowhere to go but up.
In a way, that’s the scary part...”
― Stephen King, quote from Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

“Are you a gunslinger, Roland? If you are, you better get ready.”
― Stephen King, quote from Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

“If there's to be damnation, she had said, let it be of my choosing, not theirs. He knew a little about damnation himself… and he had an idea that the lessons, far from being done, were just beginning.”
― Stephen King, quote from Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

“For people like us, little people who went scurrying through the world like mice in a cartoon, sometimes laughing at the assholes was the only revenge you could ever get.”
― Stephen King, quote from Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

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