Finders Keepers (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #2)

by Stephen King

when someone says they’re going to be honest with you, they are in most cases preparing to lie faster than a horse can trot.

Home is the place that when you go there, they have to take you in,

When he drank, any day was Anything Can Happen Day.

For readers, one of life’s most electrifying discoveries is that they are readers—not just capable of doing it (which Morris already knew), but in love with it. Hopelessly. Head over heels.

A good novelist does not lead his characters, he follows them. A good novelist does not create events, he watches them happen and then writes down what he sees. A good novelist realizes he is a secretary, not God.”

Mr. McFarland may think he’s too old to be a wolf, but what his parole officer doesn’t know is that Morris has already killed three people, and driving a car isn’t the only thing that’s like riding a bike.

There are none so blind as those who will not see,

Physical labor may be good for the body, but I don’t feel that it ennobles the soul.”