Quotes from Hearts in Atlantis

“Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.”
― Stephen King, quote from Hearts in Atlantis

“Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.”
― Stephen King, quote from Hearts in Atlantis

“Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity”
― Stephen King, quote from Hearts in Atlantis

“Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.”
― Stephen King, quote from Hearts in Atlantis

“Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.”
― Stephen King, quote from Hearts in Atlantis

“Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map.... A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. ”
― Stephen King, quote from Hearts in Atlantis

“There’s always someone who knows something.”
― Stephen King, quote from Hearts in Atlantis

“And this wasn’t lying, not really. It was leaving out.”
― Stephen King, quote from Hearts in Atlantis

“Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.”
― Stephen King, quote from Hearts in Atlantis

“It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting.”
― Stephen King, quote from Hearts in Atlantis

“A change is as good as a rest.”
― Stephen King, quote from Hearts in Atlantis

“Read sometimes for the story, Bobby. Don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words - the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers that won't do that. But when you find a book that has both good story and good words, treasure that book.”
― Stephen King, quote from Hearts in Atlantis

“Hearts are tough, Most times they don't break. Most times they are only bend”
― Stephen King, quote from Hearts in Atlantis

“You might question a winkle - a feeling that came to you right out of the blue - but you didn’t question knowing.”
― Stephen King, quote from Hearts in Atlantis

“It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills. In the end even war ran up the white flag. Or so he hoped. He hoped that in the end even war surrendered.”
― Stephen King, quote from Hearts in Atlantis

“A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work the handle with your own strength. You do this because you expect to get back more than you give.”
― Stephen King, quote from Hearts in Atlantis

“What if there were no grownups? Suppose the whole idea of grownups was an illusion? What if their money was really just playground marbles, their business deals no more than baseball-card trades, their wars only games of guns in the park? What if they were all still snotty-nosed kids inside their suits and dresses? Christ, that couldn't be, could it? It was too horrible to think about.”
― Stephen King, quote from Hearts in Atlantis

“The redness was going out of the light now, the remains of the day were a fading pink, the color of wild roses.”
― Stephen King, quote from Hearts in Atlantis

“There are also books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story, Bobby. Don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words - the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers that won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book.”
― Stephen King, quote from Hearts in Atlantis

“Good books are for consideration after, too.”
― Stephen King, quote from Hearts in Atlantis

“Adulthood is accretive by nature, a thing which arrives in ragged stages and uneven overlaps.”
― Stephen King, quote from Hearts in Atlantis

“What you don’t know, you can’t tell. Or made to tell.”
― Stephen King, quote from Hearts in Atlantis

“Actually, I think living's the worst habit.”
― Stephen King, quote from Hearts in Atlantis

“Sometimes you think you can see around corners, and maybe you can.”
― Stephen King, quote from Hearts in Atlantis

“All at once, life seemed very full.”
― Stephen King, quote from Hearts in Atlantis

“Say whatever you want about Stoke Jones, you could depend on him to put a little f/u into your day.”
― Stephen King, quote from Hearts in Atlantis

“Good luck, good will, good fortune, not ill.”
― Stephen King, quote from Hearts in Atlantis

“College is always a time of change, I guess, the last major convulsion of childhood,”
― Stephen King, quote from Hearts in Atlantis

“Hearts are tough. Most times they don't break. Most times they only bend.”
― Stephen King, quote from Hearts in Atlantis

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