Firestarter

by Stephen King

“Life is short and pain is long and we were all put on this earth to help each other.

AMEN

I believe the one thing the God of this world likes best is to give the business to people who say ‘never.’

Norma didn’t wave, thinking, perhaps, of her mother’s china, her secretary, the love letters—all the things of which insurance money is ignorant and always has been.

God loves to make a man break a vow. It keeps him properly humble about his place in the world and his sense of self-control.

You see her as you see me, Cap. It is your great failing. You look, you see a monster. Only in the girl’s case, you see a useful monster. Perhaps that is because you are a white man. White men see monsters everywhere. White men look at their own pricks and see monsters.”