“It's a long way back to Eden, Sweetheart, so don't sweat the small stuff.”
― Stephen King, quote from Insomnia
“It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.”
― Stephen King, quote from Insomnia
“Sooner or later everything you thought you'd left behind comes around again. For good or ill, it comes around again.”
― Stephen King, quote from Insomnia
“Him's name is Roland, Mama. I dream about him, sometimes. Him's a King, too.”
― Stephen King, quote from Insomnia
“I've become convinced that genius is a vastly overrated commodity. I think this country is full of geniuses, guys and gals so bright they make your average card carrying MENSA member look like Fucko the Clown. And I think that most of them are teachers, living and working in small town obscurity because that's the way they like it.”
― Stephen King, quote from Insomnia
“They lived in fearful perplexity and passed it off as imagination”
― Stephen King, quote from Insomnia
“Each thing I do I rush through so I can do something else.’ ”
― Stephen King, quote from Insomnia
“Worlds which had trembled for a moment in their orbits now steadied, and in one of those worlds, in a desert that was the apotheosis of all deserts, a man named Roland turned over in his bedroll and slept easily once again beneath the alien constellations.”
― Stephen King, quote from Insomnia
“Pack up all my care and woe, blackbird, bye-bye”
― Stephen King, quote from Insomnia
“How much courage does it take to fire up your tractor and plow under a crop you spent six or seven years growing?' he asked himself. 'How much courage to go on and do that after you’ve spent all that time finding out how to prepare the soil and when to plant and how much to water and when to reap? How much to just say, ‘I have to quit these peas, peas are no good for me, I better try corn or beans.’'
‘A lot,’ he said, wiping at the corners of his eyes again. ‘A damn lot, that’s what I think.”
― Stephen King, quote from Insomnia
“Don't sweat the small stuff, it's a long walk back to EDEN. Carolyn Roberts”
― Stephen King, quote from Insomnia
“Hey hey Susan Day have you killed any kids today?”
― Stephen King, quote from Insomnia
“It’s time to quit fucking around, don’t you know that? When you start to see colored footprints on the sidewalk, it’s time to quit fucking around and go to the doctor.”
― Stephen King, quote from Insomnia
“There’s really no just about it, is there?”
― Stephen King, quote from Insomnia
“perhaps real beauty was something unrecognized by the conscious self, a work that was always in progress, a thing of being rather than seeing.”
― Stephen King, quote from Insomnia
“What an amazing day this has been, he thought. What a perfectly amazing day . . . and it’s not even one in the afternoon yet.”
― Stephen King, quote from Insomnia
“Envelhecer não é para fracos, pois não?”
― Stephen King, quote from Insomnia
“(...) as afirmações dos cínicos parecem sempre mais plausíveis do que as dos optimistas incorrigíveis.”
― Stephen King, quote from Insomnia
“As pessoas estão constantemente a morrer por falta de sono — dizia Wyzer — apesar de o médico legista acabar por escrever 'suicídio', em vez de 'insónia', na linha correspondente à causa da morte.”
― Stephen King, quote from Insomnia
“Of all the things which make up our Short-Time lives, sleep is surely the best.”
― Stephen King, quote from Insomnia
“Because ka was like a fish, ka was like a sand dune, ka was like a wheel that didn’t want to stop but only to roll on and on, crushing whatever might happen to be in its path. A wheel of many spokes.”
― Stephen King, quote from Insomnia
“O sono é o herói esquecido e o curandeiro dos pobres. Shakespeare disse que se trata do fio que remenda os rasgões das preocupações (...).”
― Stephen King, quote from Insomnia
“The hardest for man is lie to himself between 3:00 and 6:00 in the morning.”
― Stephen King, quote from Insomnia
“She felt a calmness in him now, a centered lack of fear, that touched her heart with love, and with some queer darkness, as well. He was so different, her son, so special . . . but the world did not love people like that. The world tried to root them out, like tares from a garden.”
― Stephen King, quote from Insomnia
“Surprised, Ralph looked down at the card again. There was a second number there, marked J.W. “Day or night,” Wyzer said. “Really. You won’t disturb my wife; we’ve been divorced since 1983.”
― Stephen King, quote from Insomnia
“Beings too hideous to comprehend, according to Mr. C., and Mr. C. was a gentleman who dealt death for a living.”
― Stephen King, quote from Insomnia
“It’s a long walk back to Eden, sweetheart, so don’t sweat the small stuff.”
― Stephen King, quote from Insomnia
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“When you have a child, you have to put things aside, though. You have to live for them, if not for yourself. I was aware of this. I knowed that I could not let myself die inside, so I struggled through and made a way for myself. Most important, I tried to find a way to get joy into my life. I made a way for the possibility of joy. I looked for it anywhere I could find it. I got up early and stepped out onto the porch to see day come in.”
― Silas House, quote from A Parchment of Leaves
“Kid, let me tell you something. Most people spend their short time in this world less than half alive. They wander through their days in a haze of responsibility and resentment. Something happens to them not long after they're born. They get conflicted about what they want and start worshiping the wrong gods. Should. Mercy. Equality. Altruism. There's nothing you should do. Do what you want. Mercy isn't Nature's way. She's an equal opportunity killer. We aren't born the same. Some are stronger, faster. Never apologize for it. Altruism is an impossible concept. There's no action you can make that doesn't spring from how you want to feel about yourself.”
― Karen Marie Moning, quote from Iced
“These were colours he'd never ever seen before; ones he couldn't possibly begin to name. Here, to his left, was a wooden clock, and it was painted, well not exactly green, but a colour that green might like to be if it had any imagination at all. And over there, beside the wooden board game whose overriding colour was not red, but something that red might look at enviously, blushing with embarrassment at its own dull appearance. And the wooden letter sets, well, there were those who might have said that they were painted yellow and blue, but they would have said this knowing that such plain words were an outrageous insult to the colouring on the letters themselves.”
― John Boyne, quote from Noah Barleywater Runs Away
“You’re a mother’s dream, tall, dark and handsome, good manners, straight teeth and wealthy.”
“What about her daughter’s dream. How am I doing there?”
“Fulfilling them all.” I lifted my head to kiss him softly.”
― Vi Keeland, quote from Belong to You
“Imitation is the highest form of flattery. Until it isn't.”
― quote from Shift
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