Quotes from Rose Madder

Stephen King ·  608 pages

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“The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.”
― Stephen King, quote from Rose Madder


“It's best to be ruthless with the past.”
― Stephen King, quote from Rose Madder


“It ain't the blows we're dealt that matter, but the ones we survive.”
― Stephen King, quote from Rose Madder


“She isn't a big deal, of course, except to the people who matter in her life, but since these are the only ones she cares about, that's fine.”
― Stephen King, quote from Rose Madder


“But she stayed where she was a moment longer, like an animal which has been kept in a cage so long it cannot believe in freedom even when it is offered.”
― Stephen King, quote from Rose Madder



“In that instant she knew what it must feel like to cross a river into a foreign country, and then set fire to the bridge behind you, and stand on the riverbank, watching and breathing deeply as your only chance of retreat went up in smoke.”
― Stephen King, quote from Rose Madder


“And so thinking, she slipped not into sleep, but into that umbilical cord which connects sleeping and waking.”
― Stephen King, quote from Rose Madder


“She looked at the kids, who did not see [them] because they were past the age of twenty-five...”
― Stephen King, quote from Rose Madder


“Si está en San Francisco la seguiré allí. Si está en Tokyo la seguiré allí. Y si está en el infierno la seguiré allí. ¿Por qué no?. Allí es donde acabaremos de todas formas y probablemente juntos.”
― Stephen King, quote from Rose Madder


“¡Te voy a matar! Y, te lo aseguro, si Dios me lo permite, te mataré dos veces.”
― Stephen King, quote from Rose Madder



“It’s best to be ruthless with the past. It ain’t the blows we’re dealt that matter, but the ones we survive.”
― Stephen King, quote from Rose Madder


“Aku lebih memedulikan apa yang kausukai dan kauinginkan daripada apa yang kauterima dan lakukan”
― Stephen King, quote from Rose Madder


“As his arms went around her, she wondered how much of the human race understood about hugging- how good it was, and how a person could want to do it for hours on end. She supposed some did understand, but doubted that they were in the majority. To fully understand about hugging, maybe you had to have missed a lot of it.”
― Stephen King, quote from Rose Madder


“To fully understand about hugging, maybe you had to have missed a lot of it.”
― Stephen King, quote from Rose Madder


“It is only a deep echo, perhaps a reverberation of her husband’s madness, as soft as a rustle of batwings in a cave.”
― Stephen King, quote from Rose Madder



“This man saw women like her all the time, women hiding behind dark glasses, women buying tickets to different timezones, women who looked as if they had forgotten who they were somewhere along the way, and what they thought they were doing, and why.”
― Stephen King, quote from Rose Madder


“when you’re sitting in a corner with your hair stuck in strings to your sweaty cheeks and it feels as if you’ve swallowed a hot stone—”
― Stephen King, quote from Rose Madder


“Oh, who would be so foolish as to do that? Only someone who didn’t know him, of course—someone who didn’t know him the way she knew him.”
― Stephen King, quote from Rose Madder


“No es fantástica, por supuesto, salvo para la gente importante en su vida, pero puesto que estas personas son las únicas que le preocupan, no pasa nada.”
― Stephen King, quote from Rose Madder


“- [...] A verdade nua e crua é que um sonho mau é melhor que um despertar mau.
- É. Acho que isso é tão simples que as pessoas nem notam.”
― Stephen King, quote from Rose Madder



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Stephen King
Born place: in Portland, Maine, The United States
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