Patrick > Patrick's Quotes

“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are things you get ashamed of, because words make them smaller. When they were in your head they were limitless; but when they come out they seem to be no bigger than normal things. But that's not all. The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried; they are clues that could guide your enemies to a prize they would love to steal. It's hard and painful for you to talk about these things ... and then people just look at you strangely. They haven't understood what you've said at all, or why you almost cried while you were saying it.”
― Stephen King, The Body

“I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.”
― Stephen King, Bag of Bones

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“That’s how you know you’re home, I think, no matter how far you’ve gone from it or how long you’ve been in some other place. Home is where they want you to stay longer.”
― Stephen King, Revival

“People have many ways to be lousy to one another, as you’ll find out when you’re older, but I think that all bad behavior stems from plain old selfishness.”
― Stephen King, Revival

“Curiosity is a terrible thing, but it's human. So human.”
― Stephen King-Hall

“What if reality is nothing but some disease?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

“Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

“Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next. Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you. Remember that, Sansa, when you come to play the game.”

“What . . . what game?”

“The only game. The game of thrones.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Love is unmistakable and nobody loves you like the one who waits.”
― Keith Buckley, Scale

“Do not bring detestable things into your home, for then you will be destroyed, just like them.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Secret Santa

“We’ll remember how you can lose so much at any moment—all it takes is a little bit of bad luck, something as simple as an undertow, and you can lose it all.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Blanks