The Shining (The Shining, #1)

by Stephen King

There was no place he could run where the Overlook was not.

(Mommy and Daddy can’t help me and I’m alone.)

All we have is time, you know. An eternity of time.

Or shall we end it? Might as well. After all we’re missing the party.”

You get to go to the party after you die and the hotel takes whatever of shine you have in you.

Simile

Haha

It had been so close, so close to having the boy and the boy’s remarkable power.

Haha - simile

small flood of greenish, noxious-smelling water.

Simile

the riven floor of the lobby.

Haha - simile

The hedge dog,

the big cats.

the hedge rabbit,

Simile - nice

Simile - nice

Question? Why not talk to his shine? And why didn’t the hotel kill Dick for his shine during the 14 years he worked there?

Haha

pennants of flame

he thought he saw a huge dark shape issue,

manta,

Simile - incoherent

huge nest of ground wasps

Haha

Uh-oh, some of the hotel manager still left

an unspeakable invitation.

Thwnkgawd

pearly chain of lights.

the Red Arrow Lodge,

Rangely.

Haha

The last one was the nicest, and Hallorann had reserved it for a party of two back in April when he had gotten this gig.

“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 insurance money Jack left. There’s still over forty thousand dollars.

Beyond, the lake widened out, mirroring the pines along its verge. The terrain was mountainous around here, but the mountains were old, rounded and humbled by time.

the way things should be and the way things are hardly ever get together.

The world don’t love you, but your momma does and so do I.

But see that you get on. 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.”

Plus $40,000 in insurance, p. 654

Overlook, where the defective boiler had been the very least of the dangers.

Haha

Simile

Simile

Simile

Mrs. Massey—lumbered

Haha

of all the undead things in the Overlook, she had been the worst.

Now that he had warned his mother, he had no interest in talking to her.

her little box of widow’s tools.

shadows could be dangerous. They could have teeth.

Haha