If It Bleeds (Holly Gibney #2)

by Stephen King

promises are easy to discard, being as how giving them is free.

Henry Thoreau said that we don’t own things; things own us. Every new object—whether it’s a home, a car, a television, or a fancy phone like that one—is something more we must carry on our backs.

his coffin was a ship, and it was going to take him on his final voyage. One that went down into the dark.

I believe you hear a click, not in your head but in your soul, when you find the place where you belong. You can ignore it, but really, why would you?

I think our phones are how we are wedded to the world. If so, it’s probably a bad marriage.

fascination is fear’s twin brother,

“I believe memories are ghosts. But spooks flapping along the halls of musty castles? I think those only exist in books and movies.”

if he cries, she will, too, she won’t be able to help it. Sadness is catching, and how poopy is that?

chimera.

News people have a saying: If it bleeds, it leads.

Love is a gift; love is also a chain with a manacle at each end.

Drew let out a breath he hadn’t known he was holding (a hoary suspense novel cliché that turned out to be true)