The Shining (The Shining, #1)

by Stephen King

He felt like a man with a power cord in one hand, groping around a dark and unfamiliar room for a socket. If he could find it he would be rewarded with a view of wonders.

he looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to divert its course or alter it in any way.

That’s your job in this hard world,

to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.”