“Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only thing that matters is making a statement before one enters it. Cutting the skin of the world and leaving a scar. That’s all history is, after all: scar tissue.”
― Stephen King, quote from Mr. Mercedes
“Life is a crap carnival with shit prizes.”
― Stephen King, quote from Mr. Mercedes
“Rich people can be generous, even the ones with bloodcurdling political views can be generous, but most believe in generosity on their own terms, and underneath (not so deep, either), they’re always afraid someone is going to steal their presents and eat their birthday cake.”
― Stephen King, quote from Mr. Mercedes
“Creepy as hell. You ever see that TV movie about the clown in the sewer?”
― Stephen King, quote from Mr. Mercedes
“Never tell a lie when you can tell the truth.”
― Stephen King, quote from Mr. Mercedes
“Most people are sheep and sheep don't eat meat”
― Stephen King, quote from Mr. Mercedes
“Everybody likes the ice cream man.”
― Stephen King, quote from Mr. Mercedes
“When you gaze into the abyss, Nietzsche wrote, the abyss also gazes into you.”
― Stephen King, quote from Mr. Mercedes
“How cruel would a supreme being have to be to make a world as fucked-up as this one?”
― Stephen King, quote from Mr. Mercedes
“Any system created by the mind of man can be hacked by the mind of man.”
― Stephen King, quote from Mr. Mercedes
“Hodges has read there are wells in Iceland so deep you can drop a stone down them and never hear the splash. He thinks some human souls are like that.”
― Stephen King, quote from Mr. Mercedes
“Hodges remembers an old saying: even on the darkest day, the sun shines on some dog’s ass.”
― Stephen King, quote from Mr. Mercedes
“even on the darkest day, the sun shines on some dog’s ass.”
― Stephen King, quote from Mr. Mercedes
“That’s all history is, after all: scar tissue.”
― Stephen King, quote from Mr. Mercedes
“[E]ighty percent of success is just showing up.”
― Stephen King, quote from Mr. Mercedes
“More coffee?” Hodges declines with a smile. Hot can only do so much for bad coffee.”
― Stephen King, quote from Mr. Mercedes
“It’s easy—too easy—to either disbelieve or disregard someone you dislike.”
― Stephen King, quote from Mr. Mercedes
“In a don’t-give-a-fuck world, he is about to become the ultimate don’t-give-a-fucker.”
― Stephen King, quote from Mr. Mercedes
“It wasn't fair, but what is? Life is a crap carnival with shit prizes.”
― Stephen King, quote from Mr. Mercedes
“Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.”
― Stephen King, quote from Mr. Mercedes
“That had to be the answer. When you heard hoofbeats, you didn't think zebras.”
― Stephen King, quote from Mr. Mercedes
“What he knows now is that guilt isn’t the only reason people commit suicide. Sometimes you can just get bored with afternoon TV.”
― Stephen King, quote from Mr. Mercedes
“Holly sighs. “I’m out of cigarettes, too.” “Those things will kill you,” Jerome says. She gives him a flat look. “Yes! That’s part of their charm.”
― Stephen King, quote from Mr. Mercedes
“You can lead a whore to culture, but you can’t make her think.”
― Stephen King, quote from Mr. Mercedes
“as if the cops expected the big gray sedan to start up by itself, like that old Plymouth in the horror movie,”
― Stephen King, quote from Mr. Mercedes
“I did something good for you just now. Before the sun goes down tonight, I want you to pass it on.”
― Stephen King, quote from Mr. Mercedes
“College was for people who didn’t know they were smart.”
― Stephen King, quote from Mr. Mercedes
“Any system created by the mind of man can be hacked by the mind of man. You feel me?”
― Stephen King, quote from Mr. Mercedes
“Woody Allen was right: eighty percent of success is just showing up.”
― Stephen King, quote from Mr. Mercedes
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“I’m less a member of the Greencloaks and more a member of Let’s-Save-Erdas.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, quote from Hunted
“His voice had this thick, Charleston accent, where every word had more syllables than ever intended, yet each word seemed as if it had been carefully chosen and presented in a way that only a man born and raised in the heart of the South could–distinguished and from a different time.”
― Laura Miller, quote from Butterfly Weeds
“Most people love with a guarded heart, only if certain things happen or don’t happen, only to a point. If the person we love hurts us, betrays us, abandons us, disappoints us, if the person becomes hard to love, we often stop loving. We protect our delicate hearts. We close off, retreat, withhold, disconnect, and withdraw. We might even hate. Most people love conditionally. Most people are never asked to love with a whole and open heart. They only love partway. They get by. Autism was my gift to you. My autism didn’t let me hug and kiss you, it didn’t allow me to look into your eyes, it didn’t let me say aloud the words you so desperately wanted to hear with your ears. But you loved me anyway. You’re thinking, Of course I did. Anyone would have. This isn’t true. Loving me with a full and accepting heart, loving all of me, required you to grow. Despite your heartache and disappointment, your fears and frustration and sorrow, despite all I couldn’t show you in return, you loved me. You loved me unconditionally. You haven’t experienced this kind of love with Dad or your parents or your sister or anyone else before. But now, you know what unconditional love is. I know my death has hurt you, and you’ve needed time alone to heal. You’re ready now. You’ll still miss me. I miss you, too. But you’re ready. Take what you’ve learned and love someone again. Find someone to love and love without condition. This is why we’re all here.”
― Lisa Genova, quote from Love Anthony
“Tanto tú como tu amarillo decidiréis lo que queréis ser. Lo que es seguro es que luego no hay marcha atrás. Cuando el amarillo se intensifica o se decolora, nunca más vuelve a ser amarillo.”
― Albert Espinosa, quote from The Yellow World
“I just realized that the key to advertising can be summed up in one word: Bullshit.”
― Whitney G., quote from Mid-Life Love
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