Different Seasons: Four Novellas

by Stephen King

In spite of the problems he was having, he was going on with his life.

As we all must

“I think a man feels more like a man when he’s working out of doors in the springtime if he can have a bottle of suds.

Love that line from the movie

the amount of expert financial help an individual or company needs rises in direct proportion to how many people that person or business is screwing.

This second type of guy knows there’s no harm in hoping for the best as long as you’re prepared for the worst.”

Thats me

“I know that,” he said. “But it isn’t just a piece of paper that makes a man. And it isn’t just prison that breaks one, either.”

Good writing

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.

God thats good writing

Remember that hope is a good thing, Red, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

“A shave puts a shine on the morning.” Todd’s father shaved every day, whether he had to work or not.

I can relate

The banker who bought them for me went to jail for murdering his wife a year after I bought them… life is sometimes strange, boy, hein?”

Ha

‘There will be water if God wills it, and we will find it if God wills it, and we will drink it if God wills it.’ What happens is not up to us.”

nice

In Israel, the Palestinians kill busloads of farmers who were committing the political crime of going into town to see a movie. The Israelis cope with this injustice by dropping bombs on the Palestinians and killing children along with whatever terrorists may be there. Others have it worse than me… which is not to say this is good, don’t get that idea, but others have it worse.

That conflict goes all the way back. This book was written in the 80s

Chopper was—at least until Joe Camber’s dog Cujo went rabid twenty years later—the most feared and least seen dog in Castle Rock.

Wow

“This is really a good time,” Vern said simply, and he didn’t just mean being off-limits inside the dump, or fudging our folks, or going on a hike up the railroad tracks into Harlow; he meant those things but it seems to me now that there was more, and that we all knew it. Everything was there and around us. We knew exactly who we were and exactly where we were going. It was grand.

Pure nostalgia

I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, did you?

Nope

Jerusalem’s Lot?

Easteregg

And Miss Norman, who taught Latin and English Fundamentals at the Gretna Consolidated High School, vomited into her own purse in an agony of propriety.

I remember that from the movie lol

Shawshank.”

Easteregg

But I’ve been in love with each of these stories, too, and part of me always will be in love with them, I guess. I hope that you liked them, Reader; that they did for you what any good story should do—make you forget the real stuff weighing on your mind for a little while and take you away to a place you’ve never been. It’s the most amiable sort of magic I know. Okay. Gotta split. Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy. Love and good wishes, STEPHEN KING

I like that