The Shining (The Shining, #1)

by Stephen King

She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong.

Once, during the drinking phase, Wendy had accused him of desiring his own destruction but not possessing the necessary moral fiber to support a full-blown

deathwish. So he manufactured ways in which other people could do it, lopping a piece at a time off himself and their family.

Tough old world, baby. If you’re not bolted together tightly, you’re gonna shake, rattle, and roll before you turn thirty.

“You and him, you’re coming back. Different, maybe, but okay. You ain’t what you were, you two, but that isn’t necessarily bad.”

The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge.

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.”