“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
Stephen King
Born place: in Portland, Maine, The United States
See more on GoodReads
“always amazed him how something that is broken on the inside can look so perfect on the outside.”
― Emily Bleeker, quote from When I'm Gone
“Quigley and Matthews took their investigation in Lake County beyond law enforcement personnel and established witnesses to civic officials, politicians, prominent businessmen, and grove owners in this largely rural area of central Florida with a population of thirty-six thousand. What they discovered was a county controlled not by politics, money, the citrus industry, or the law, but by an embittered contingent of the Ku Klux Klan intent upon codifying a racial caste system, through violent means if necessary, that would effectively deny blacks access to political influence, economic opportunity, and social justice.”
― Gilbert King, quote from Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
“Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate
are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and
alarms cast the die for any tempted and trembling sinner; and it
fell out with me, as it falls with so vast a majority of my
fellows, that I chose the better part and was found wanting in the
strength to keep to it.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
“It’s a grace feather. See how its colors shift from green to blue, like the sea? It means remembrance. It shows that no distance, no amount of water between two people, will make them forget. Someone gave it to say that they remembered you.”
― Kirsty Logan, quote from The Gracekeepers
“Several RainWings stood by the water, in shades of blue and purple, holding NightWing spears.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, quote from The Brightest Night
Lost in a Good Book
Slide, a Modern Sati...
When It Happens
Interview with a Mas...
A Capitalist in Nort...BookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, memorable and interesting quotes from great books. As the world communicates more and more via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become more relevant and important. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a philosophy by which we live. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a book and to carry with us the author’s best ideas.
We thoughtfully gather quotes from our favorite books, both classic and current, and choose the ones that are most thought-provoking. Each quote represents a book that is interesting, well written and has potential to enhance the reader’s life. We also accept submissions from our visitors and will select the quotes we feel are most appealing to the BookQuoters community.
Founded in 2023, BookQuoters has quickly become a large and vibrant community of people who share an affinity for books. Books are seen by some as a throwback to a previous world; conversely, gleaning the main ideas of a book via a quote or a quick summary is typical of the Information Age but is a habit disdained by some diehard readers. We feel that we have the best of both worlds at BookQuoters; we read books cover-to-cover but offer you some of the highlights. We hope you’ll join us.
