“I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.”
― Stephen King, quote from Full Dark, No Stars
“When it came to the dark fuckery of the human heart, there seemed to be no limit.”
― Stephen King, quote from Full Dark, No Stars
“He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it set in again.”
― Stephen King, quote from Full Dark, No Stars
“Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.”
― Stephen King, quote from Full Dark, No Stars
“We never cease wanting what we want, whether it's good for us or not.”
― Stephen King, quote from Full Dark, No Stars
“All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs. Take my hand, Constant Reader, and I'll be happy to lead you back into the sunshine. I'm happy to go there because I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.”
― Stephen King, quote from Full Dark, No Stars
“Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.”
― Stephen King, quote from Full Dark, No Stars
“In the end we are all caught in devices of our own making. I believe that. In the end we are all caught.”
― Stephen King, quote from Full Dark, No Stars
“If you're going into a very dark place, then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see, why in God's name would you dare the dark at all?”
― Stephen King, quote from Full Dark, No Stars
“They say that loving eyes can never see, but that's a fool's axiom. Sometimes, they see too much”
― Stephen King, quote from Full Dark, No Stars
“They say suicides and murderers go to Hell. If so, I will know my way around, because I've been there for the last eight years.”
― Stephen King, quote from Full Dark, No Stars
“This was the Darker Life, where every truth was written backward.”
― Stephen King, quote from Full Dark, No Stars
“You could not turn off love- even the rather absent, sometimes taken for granted love- the way you'd turn off a faucet. Love ran from the heart and the heart had it's own imperatives”
― Stephen King, quote from Full Dark, No Stars
“For," I said, "a murdered man or woman dies not in God's time, but in Man's. He... or she... is cut short before he... or she... can atone for sin, and so all errors must be forgiven. When you think of it that way, all murderers are a gateway for heaven.”
― Stephen King, quote from Full Dark, No Stars
“It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover.”
― Stephen King, quote from Full Dark, No Stars
“Why does she have to be such a...such a..."
"Go on," I said. "The truth is never cussing, Son."
"Such a bitch!”
― Stephen King, quote from Full Dark, No Stars
“If God rewards us on earth for good deeds—the Old Testament suggests it’s so, and the Puritans certainly believed it—then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones.”
― Stephen King, quote from Full Dark, No Stars
“Deep inside her (ih her harrowed soul) she felt a glowing ember of fury at the man responsible for this. Tha man who had put her in this position. She looked at the pistol lying beside the basin, and knew that if he were here, she would use it on him without a moment's hesitation. Knowing that made her feel confused about herself. It also made her feel a little stronger.”
― Stephen King, quote from Full Dark, No Stars
“There are always worse things waiting. You think you have seen the most terrible thing, the one that coalesces all your nightmares into a freakish horror that actually exists, and the only consolation is that there can be nothing worse. Even if there is, your mind will snap at the sight of it, and you will know no more. But there is worse, your mind does not snap, and somehow you carry on. You might understand that all the joy has gone out of the world for you, you might wish you were the one who was dead - but you go on. You might realize that you are in a hell of your own making, but you go on nevertheless. Because there is nothing else to do.”
― Stephen King, quote from Full Dark, No Stars
“How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation.”
― Stephen King, quote from Full Dark, No Stars
“The wife whose sweetly given reply in the face of any problem would be, "Whatever you think is best, dear." Women, take note: a wife like that never needs to fear bubbling away the last of her life through a cut throat.”
― Stephen King, quote from Full Dark, No Stars
“My girl has got a bun in her oven, and I guess you know who did the damn cooking.”
― Stephen King, quote from Full Dark, No Stars
“Old habits died hard. Often, she thought, they don't die until we do.”
― Stephen King, quote from Full Dark, No Stars
“Outside, a gusty October breeze was combing leaves from the trees and sending them across her backyard in colorful skitters.”
― Stephen King, quote from Full Dark, No Stars
“Is there hell, or do we make our own on earth?”
― Stephen King, quote from Full Dark, No Stars
“Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do—to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.”
― Stephen King, quote from Full Dark, No Stars
“A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation.”
― Stephen King, quote from Full Dark, No Stars
“if you found enough cat hairs in a person's house, you pretty much had to assume there was a feline on the premises somewhere”
― Stephen King, quote from Full Dark, No Stars
“Or perhaps it was the voice of the Darker Girl.”
― Stephen King, quote from Full Dark, No Stars
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“I lifted the remote control, pushed the Play button, and started the video. I guess, in that moment, I also started my new life as Cameron-the-girl-with-no-parents. Ruth was sort of right, I would learn: A relationship with a higher power is often best practiced alone. For me it was practiced in hour-and-half or two-hour increments, and paused when necessary. I don't think it's overstating it to say that my religion of choice became VHS rentals, and that its messages came in Technicolor and musical montages and fades and jump cuts and silver-screen legends and B-movie nobodies and villains to root for and good guys to hate. But Ruth was wrong, too. There was more than just one other world beyond ours; there were hundreds and hundreds of them, and at 99 cents apiece I could rent them all.”
― Emily M. Danforth, quote from The Miseducation of Cameron Post
“I was thrilled. I had never met a famous writer before. I examined him closely as he sat in my office. What astonished me was that he looked so ordinary. There was nothing in the least unusual about him. His face, his conversation, his eyes behind the spectacles, even his clothes were all exceedingly normal. And yet here was a writer of stories who was famous the world over. His books had been read by millions of people. I expected sparks to be shooting out of his head, or at the very least, he should have been wearing a long green cloak and a floppy hat with a wide brim. But no.”
― Roald Dahl, quote from The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More
“Intimacy needs time to mature—a shared history, tears shed, obstacles overcome, photographs in an album. It’s a slow-growing plant.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Maya's Notebook
“Regard [a friend] as loyal, and you will make him loyal.”
― Seneca, quote from Letters from a Stoic (a selection)
“Resigned that those surrounding him had no idea who he was, and invariably kind to his social and intellectual inferiors, he sometimes felt doubly hurt that those who ought to have understood him really had less respect for him than his most casual acquaintances.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, quote from The Portable Nietzsche
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