“Late last night and the night before, tommyknockers, tommyknockers knocking on my door. I wanna go out, don't know if I can 'cuz I'm so afraid of the tommyknocker man.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Tommyknockers
“He remembered waking up once, listening to the wind, thinking of all the dark and rushing cold outside and all the warmth of this bed, filled with their peaceful heat under two quilts, and wishing it could be like this forever.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Tommyknockers
“And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Tommyknockers
“So what he supposed to do? Grab Bobbie's ax and make like Jack Nicholson in The Shinning? He could see it. Smash, crash, bash: Heeeeeeere's GARDENER!”
― Stephen King, quote from The Tommyknockers
“Overhead was a sky blacker than jewlers' velvet, and a billion stars screamed down...”
― Stephen King, quote from The Tommyknockers
“We always assumed the aliens would have to at least be alive to invade. Not even H.G. Wells expected an invasion of ghosts.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Tommyknockers
“You cant be too careful on a skateboard.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Tommyknockers
“There's a big difference between being good at what you DO and being smart about what you KNOW”
― Stephen King, quote from The Tommyknockers
“I don't mean that creative people are somehow finer, or more sensitive, and thus have finer, more sensitive nervous breakdowns - you can save that horseshit for the Sylvia Plath worshipers. It's just that creative people have creative breakdowns.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Tommyknockers
“thoes prepared to shed copious floods of crocodile tears . . .”
― Stephen King, quote from The Tommyknockers
“The feel of the sticky wetness down there when she moved made her grimace. God, she wanted to get cleaned up. In a hurry.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Tommyknockers
“His failure hurt too badly for that. It was a bad equation. Best erase it and try a new one.
If adults could put aside their obsessions with such firmness, the world would undoubtedly be a better place. Robertson Davies does not say that in his Deptford Trilogy ... but he strongly hints at it.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Tommyknockers
“The trouble with living alone, she had discovered-and the reason why most people she knew didn't like to be alone even for a little while-was that the longer you lived alone, the louder the voices on the right side of your brain got.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Tommyknockers
“Mr. Robertson Davies has also suggested in his Deptford Trilogy that the same great truism which applies to writing, painting, picking horses at the track, and telling lies in a sincerely believable way, also applies to magic: some people got the knack, and some people don’t. Hilly didn’t.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Tommyknockers
“Getting help from a guy like you is like hiring a pyromaniac to fix the oil-burner.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Tommyknockers
“Then they were all standing and applauding, yeah, they were giving him a fucking standing O, and in their faces he saw what every poet or would-be poet hopes to see when he or she finished reading: the faces of people suddenly awakened from a dream brighter than any reality.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Tommyknockers
“She had been amazed-and a little relieved-to discover that she was not concealing some private neurosis; almost all imaginative people heard voices. Not just thoughts but actual voices inside their heads, different personae, each as clearly defined as the voices on an old-time radio show. They came from the right side of the brain, the teacher explained-the side which is most commonly associated with visions of telepathy and that striking human ability to create images by drawing comparisons and making metaphors.
There are no such things as flying saucers.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Tommyknockers
“Late last night and the night before, Tommyknockers, Tommyknockers, knocking at the door. I want to go out, don’t know if I can, ’cause I’m so afraid of the Tommyknocker man.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Tommyknockers
“He was having a seizure of projectile vomiting. This was not considered a sign of good health in medical circles.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Tommyknockers
“Wie oft gab es eine letzte Minute?
Verbrauchte Brennstäbe, die zu großen heißen Stapeln aufgeschichtet wurden. Sie meinen, der Fluch des Tutenchamun wäre schlimm gewesen? Mann! Warten Sie ab, bis ein Archäologe des funfundzwanzigsten Jahrhunderts diese Scheiße ausgräbt!”
― Stephen King, quote from The Tommyknockers
“A person sometimes believes she's seen all the way to the bottom of the well of human stupidity, and a reminder that that well apparently has no bottom is sometimes useful.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Tommyknockers
“Boring and unpleasant did not mean a task was 'unfruitful,' a fact a lot of people seemed not to know, or to willfully ignore.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Tommyknockers
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“In this way, compared to some, I could have explained to Carlos, I had it easy. I’d been practicing all my life for this, carrying things. For others it came as a shock. No matter how exhausted we were or what slant he put on our situation, I was only breaking night, fending off the dark until the sun rose each day, when I’d start over, ready and able to do it again.”
― Liz Murray, quote from Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
“A loose end - that's what we woman call it, when we are overwhelmed by the care of small children, the weight of small tasks, a life in which we fall into bed at the end of the day exhausted from being all things to all people.”
― Anna Quindlen, quote from Every Last One
“If I told you, you'd only know it in your mind, not in your heart. There's a big difference.”
― Laurie Faria Stolarz, quote from White Is for Magic
“You love her, don't you?' [Rob] said to Gabriel.
Gabriel finall seemed able to break their locked stare. He looked away, at the carpet. His face was bleak.
Yes' he said
More than anything,' Rob persisted. 'You'd crawl on your belly over broken glass for her. Easy.'
Yes, damn you,' Gabriel said. 'Happy now?”
― L.J. Smith, quote from The Passion
“Let’s just say that being able to contact ghosts makes for some very interesting ménages á trios… and ménages á quartre, and ménages á … whatever five is in French. ~Jaime Vegas”
― Kelley Armstrong, quote from No Humans Involved
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