Christine

by Stephen King

“Has it ever occurred to you,” he said abruptly, “that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking and screaming?”

And if her own family thought she was hard sometimes, it was because they didn’t understand that when you went through hell you came out baked by the fire.

There was a breath of mortality in the realization that seven years could steal past with such smooth and unobtrusive ease.