Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

by Stephen King

I got three of those green milkshakes they serve at McDonald’s around St. Paddy’s Day for a crazy Irishman named O’Malley;

How old is that Irish shake??

They give you life, and that’s what they take—all of it that counts, anyway.

“You have strong feelings about lethal objects?”

Most people do when they're being asked to smuggle them in Andy

I want it because I like rocks.”

Ah he was one of THOSE kids

In spite of the problems he was having, he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don’t or won’t or can’t, and plenty of them aren’t in prison, either.

“I understood what you said. I don’t think you understood me. I’m going to bite whatever you stick into my mouth. You can put that razor into my brain, I guess, but you should know that a sudden serious brain injury causes the victim to simultaneously urinate, defecate… and bite down.”

HELL YEAH YOU FUCKIN TELL HIM ANDY

But I don’t think solitary was the hardship for Andy that it was for some men. He got along with himself.

I think i would too. I'm a pretty funny gal

Like everyone else, I look after my own ass first. I have to. It’s cracked already, and in Shawshank there have always been Hadleys willing to finish the job of breaking it.

I see what you did there Red lol

“You’re fucking-A. I don’t need any smart wife-killing banker to show me where the bear shit in the buckwheat.”

Bro what that even mean?

I hope he died of intestinal cancer in a part of the world where morphine is as of yet undiscovered.

Well jeez Red, that's aggressive

Years later I saw exactly what he meant… and when I did, the first thing I thought of was Normaden, and about how he’d said it was always cold in Andy’s cell.

you could hear him even after the door was shut: “It’s my life! It’s my life, don’t you understand it’s my life?”

This broke me

“Because people like you make me sick,” Norton said deliberately. “I like you right where you are, Mr. Dufresne,

Fuck you, you crack pipe

It is simply that men like you need to learn humility.

Hes serving a life sentence for a crime he didn't do, what more could you want from the guy????

“Zihuatanejo,”

In 1975, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank.

A redemption one could say

“I want my lawyer, I want my lawyer, you guys run this place just like a frigging prison.”

That guy is the life of the party

You better find him! You better! Because I want him! Do you hear me? I want him!”

Andy: "why you so obsessed with me?"

Andy Dufresne who had waded in shit and came out clean on the other side, Andy Dufresne, headed for the Pacific.

and even with the soft concrete, it took him two rock-hammers and twenty-seven years to do it.

The message side of the card was totally blank. But I know. I know it in my heart as surely as I know that we’re all going to die someday.

There’s a big hayfield in Buxton, Andy had said, and at the north end of that hayfield there’s a rock wall, right out of a Robert Frost poem. And somewhere along the base of that wall is a rock that has no earthly business in a Maine hayfield.

Get busy living or get busy dying.

I hope Andy is down there. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.