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“Life is a crap carnival with shit prizes.”
― Stephen King, Mr. Mercedes

“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.”
― Stephen King, The Green Mile

“Tough old world, baby. If you're not bolted together tightly, you're gonna shake, rattle, and roll before you turn thirty.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“Children have to grow into their imaginations like a pair of oversized shoes.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“That’s your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“Innocence to experience. Human nature, baby. Grab it and growl.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“When we grow up, concepts gradually get easier and we leave the images to the poets”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“got to be regular if you want to be happy,”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“You know, schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It’s accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“Every big hotel has got a ghost. Why? Hell, people come and go …”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“Today, I slept in until 10,
Cleaned every dish I own,
Fought with the bank,
Took care of paperwork.
You and I might have different definitions of adulthood.
I don’t work for salary, I didn’t graduate from college,
But I don’t speak for others anymore,
And I don’t regret anything I can’t genuinely apologize for.
And my mother is proud of me.
I burnt down a house of depression,
I painted over murals of greyscale,
And it was hard to rewrite my life into one I wanted to live
But today, I want to live.
I didn’t salivate over sharp knives,
Or envy the boy who tossed himself off the Brooklyn bridge.
I just cleaned my bathroom,
did the laundry,
called my brother.
Told him, “it was a good day.”
― Kait Rokowski

“Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red.”
― Kait Rokowski

“The seeds sown in childhood put down deep roots. At”
― Stephen King, End of Watch

“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire