Quotes from Firestarter

Stephen King ·  416 pages

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“The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies.”
― Stephen King, quote from Firestarter


“No one likes to see a government folder with his name on it.”
― Stephen King, quote from Firestarter


“Life is short and pain is long and we were all put on this earth to help each other.”
― Stephen King, quote from Firestarter


“A kid of your age—any kid—could get hold of matches if she wanted to, burn up the house or whatever. But not many do. Why would they want to?”
― Stephen King, quote from Firestarter


“You're a firestarter honey...just one big Zippo lighter”
― Stephen King, quote from Firestarter



“Hadn’t somebody said that perfect paranoia and perfect awareness were the same thing?”
― Stephen King, quote from Firestarter


“It’s gonna be all right,” he told her, not really believing it, knowing as every adult knows in his secret heart that nothing is really all right, ever. “It’s gonna be all right.”
― Stephen King, quote from Firestarter


“God loves to make a man break a vow.”
― Stephen King, quote from Firestarter


Thud, thud, thud, riderless black horse with red eyes coming down the halls of his mind, ironshod hooves digging up soft gray clods of brain tissue, leaving hoofprints to fill up with mystic crescents of blood.”
― Stephen King, quote from Firestarter


“zivot je tezak, ako si slab.”
― Stephen King, quote from Firestarter



“The brain is a muscle that can move the world.”
― Stephen King, quote from Firestarter


“He was Naked. He sat in the chain with his bare feet neatly together and watched the program. He was waiting for it to get dark. After it got dark, he would begin waiting for it to get late. When it was late, he would begin waiting for it to get early. When it got early and the pulse of the hotel was at its slowest, he would stop waiting and go upstairs to Room 1317 and kill Dr. Wanlass.”
― Stephen King, quote from Firestarter


“Life is short and pain is long...”
― Stephen King, quote from Firestarter


“She came to him then and lifted her arms to be picked up, something he could not remember her doing for a long time-maybe two years. It was amazing how time got by, how quickly a child could change, change in front of your eyes with an unobtrusiveness that was nearly terrible.”
― Stephen King, quote from Firestarter


“Das Leben ist kurz, und der Schmerz ist lang, und wir sind alle auf diese Welt gekommen, um einander zu helfen.”
― Stephen King, quote from Firestarter



“Nun, sich um anderer Leute Angelegenheit zu kümmern, ist eine Sache, etwas Bedürftiges zu sehen und einfach wegzuschauen, eine andere.”
― Stephen King, quote from Firestarter


“Weit hinten, jenseits des Tashmore-Sees, schimmerten die Tannen graugrün in der Sonne. Dumme Bäume, hatte Großvater einmal gesagt, sie kennen nicht einmal den Unterschied zwischen Sommer und Winter.”
― Stephen King, quote from Firestarter


“Gott lässt die Menschen gern ihre Schwüre brechen.”
― Stephen King, quote from Firestarter


“Ideale waren leicht zu vertreten, solange sie nicht durch solide Argumente über den Haufen geworfen werden konnten.”
― Stephen King, quote from Firestarter


“Aber trotz alledem, glasierte Hundescheiße ist kein Hochzeitskuchen; und dies war ganz einfach glasierte Hundescheiße”
― Stephen King, quote from Firestarter



“Er war entsetzt … und der Höhlenmensch in ihm sprang herum und freute sich.”
― Stephen King, quote from Firestarter


“El cerebro es un músculo que puede mover el mundo”
― Stephen King, quote from Firestarter


“Y todas las personas que participaban en ese programa parecían viajeros del tiempo llegados del año 1963.”
― Stephen King, quote from Firestarter


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Stephen King
Born place: in Portland, Maine, The United States
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