“A man’s life was five dogs long, Cortland believed. The first was the one that taught you. The second was the one you taught. The third and fourth were the ones you worked. The last was the one that outlived you. That was the winter dog. Cortland’s winter dog had no name. He thought of it only as the scarecrow dog…”
― Stephen King, quote from UR
“Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all.”
― Stephen King, quote from UR
“The Tower trembles; the worlds shudder in their courses. The rose feels a chill, as of winter.”
― Stephen King, quote from UR
“Kindle, isn’t it?” the waitress asked. “I got one for Christmas, and I love it. I’m reading my way through all of Jodi Picoult’s books.” “Oh, probably not all of them,” Wesley said. “Huh? Why not?” “She’s probably got another one done already. That’s all I meant.” “And James Patterson’s probably written one since he got up this morning!” she said, and went off chortling.”
― Stephen King, quote from UR
“He thought one of the universal truths of life was that, sooner or later, someone always paid.”
― Stephen King, quote from UR
“Because sometimes longshots came in. Both for good and for ill.”
― Stephen King, quote from UR
“UR LOCAL's under construction. Better watch out, traffic fines double.”
― Stephen King, quote from UR
“This was a fact so simple that it defied logic. It bypassed logic.”
― Stephen King, quote from UR
“In a real dark night of the soul, Scott Fitzgerald had said, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.”
― Stephen King, quote from UR
“A crazy certainty had arisen in his mind: a hand - or perhaps a claw - was going to swim up from the grayness of the Kindle's screen, grab him by the throat, and yank him in.”
― Stephen King, quote from UR
“It occurred to him that spite was a kind of methadone for lovers. Was it better to go cold turkey? Perhaps not.”
― Stephen King, quote from UR
“George Herbert was wrong. Living well isn’t the best revenge; loving well is.”
― Stephen King, quote from UR
“Books were his Achilles heel. She”
― Stephen King, quote from UR
“Can you keep a secret? Say no and I’ll have to kill you.”
― Stephen King, quote from UR
“The Tower trembles; the worlds shudder in their courses.”
― Stephen King, quote from UR
“La vida de un hombre dura cinco perros”
― Stephen King, quote from UR
“He had an idea all such blocks were probably fear-centered and basically hysterical in nature, as if the brain detected (or thought it had detected) some nasty interior beast and had locked it in a cell with a steel door.”
― Stephen King, quote from UR
“they seemed as unreal as actors when you saw them on a movie screen. They were big up there—often beautiful, too—but they were still only shadows thrown by light.”
― Stephen King, quote from UR
“The gadget had come with The New Oxford American Dictionary preloaded. You only had to begin typing your word and the Kindle found it for you. It was, he thought, TiVo for bookworms.”
― Stephen King, quote from UR
“Books have a smell, for instance. One that gets better—more nostalgic—as the years go by. Does this gadget of yours have a smell?” “Nope,”
― Stephen King, quote from UR
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“philosophers have warned us: if we forget the past, we are doomed to repeat it.”
― Ira Levin, quote from The Boys from Brazil
“You need the noise of your friends in space.”
― M.T. Anderson, quote from Feed
“When the sun sets like fire,
I will think of you,
when the moon casts its light,
I'll remember, too,
if a soft rain falls gently,
I'll stand in this place,
recalling the last time,
I saw your kind face.
Good fortune go with you,
to your journey's end,
let the waters run calmly,
for you, my dear friend.”
― Brian Jacques, quote from Loamhedge
“What are these?”
Meg looked at the rings of keys in Nate’s hand, deliberately furrowed her brow. “Those would be keys.”
“Why do you need so many keys?”
“Because there are so many locks? Is this a quiz?”
He jingled them in his palm while she continued to give him a sunny, innocent smile. “Meg, you don’t even lock your doors half the time. What are all these keys about?”
“Well… There are times a person needs to get into a place, and hey, that place is locked. Then she would need a key.”
“And this place that, hey, is locked, wouldn’t be the property of that person. Would that be correct?”
“Techincally. But no man is an island, and it takes a village, and so on. We’re all one in the Zen universe.”
“So these would be Zen keys?”
“Exactly. Give them back.”
“I don’t think so.” He closed his fist around them. “You see, even in the Zen universe I’d hate to arrest my wife for unlawful entry.”
“I’m not your wife yet, buddy. Did you have a search warrant for those?”
“They were in plain sight. No warrant necessary.”
“Gestapo.”
“Delinquent.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Northern Lights
“Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Sociological
Review revealed that atheists are the least trusted group in
America—less trusted, even, than homosexuals. It makes sense at least we trust the homosexuals with our hair.”
― Stephen Colbert, quote from I Am America (And So Can You!)
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