“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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“It’s a condom, Kade, because if you’re going to act like a dick, you might as well dress like one,”
― Christine Zolendz, quote from Brutally Beautiful
“it’s more important to be right than to be first.”
― Amish Tripathi, quote from Scion of Ikshvaku
“So when one spring in spite of all this good advice I fell in love, it felt like disaster. I took a tiny bite and it exploded in my stomach. Love splashed through every cranny, hauled on every muscle, unlocked every joint. I was so full of astonishment, I felt ten feet tall. My shoulders itched as if wings might break through.”
― Emma Donoghue, quote from Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins
“All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly barren and negligible effort, lasting only for a few moments in the life of the galaxy. When it was over, the host of the planetary systems still lived on, with here and there a casualty, and here and there among the stars a new planetary birth, and here and there a fresh disaster.”
― Olaf Stapledon, quote from Star Maker
“Alyce," she breathed. Alyce sounded clean and smart. You could love someone maned Alyce. She looked back at the face in the water. "This is me, Alyce." It was right. So the newly called Alyce shifted the pack on her shoulders, and with her head back and bare feet solid on the ground, she headed back to the midwife's cottage and never noticed when it grew dark, for heat and light were within her.”
― Karen Cushman, quote from The Midwife's Apprentice
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