Fairy Tale

by Stephen King

I wish I had looked longer, but I don’t blame myself. You never know where the trapdoors are in your life, do you?

“There’s always someone at fault,” Dad said. “Which is not the same as blame.”

“A brave man helps. A coward just gives presents.”

“Time is the water, Charlie. Life is just the bridge it flows under.”

Here is something I learned in Empis: good people shine brighter in dark times.

tempus est umbra in mente is a better one. Roughly translated, it means time is a shadow in the mind.”

There’s a dark well in everyone, I think, and it never goes dry. But you drink from it at your peril. That water is poison.

shame is like laughter. And inspiration. It doesn’t knock.