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“Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman's got to hold on to.”
― Stephen King, Dolores Claiborne

“The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.”
― Stephen King, Rose Madder

“men were not so much gifted with penises as cursed with them.”
― Stephen King, Gerald's Game

“Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones you get novels. A little talent is a nice thing to have if you want to be a writer, but the only real requirement is the ability to remember the story of every scar.
Art consists of the persistence of memory.”
― Stephen King, Misery

“He had discovered that there was not just one God but many, and some were more than cruel — they were insane, and that changed all. Cruelty, after all, was understandable. With insanity, however, there was no arguing.”
― Stephen King, Misery

“...stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“Late last night and the night before, tommyknockers, tommyknockers knocking on my door. I wanna go out, don't know if I can 'cuz I'm so afraid of the tommyknocker man.”
― Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

“And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.”
― Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

“But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.”
― Stephen King, Carrie

“There’s something comforting about the sight of strangers safe at home.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“But I did become sadder, and sadness gets boring after a while, for the sad person and for everyone around them.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?”
― Stephen King, The Body

“I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows