Ryan Cek > Ryan's Quotes

“As for the end of the universe…I say let it come as it will, in ice, fire, or darkness. What did the universe ever do for me that I should mind its welfare?”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower

“Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please.”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower

“Death, but not for you, gunslinger. Never for you. You darkle. You tinct. May I be brutally frank? You go on.”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower

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

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

“Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.”
― Stephen King

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.”
― Stephen King

“That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.”
― Stephen King

“I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
I aim with my eye.

I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
I shoot with my mind.

I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father.
I kill with my heart.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.”
― Stephen King , The Stand

“We lie best when we lie to ourselves.”
― Stephen King, It

“When all else fails, give up and go to the library.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“Your hair is winter fire
January embers
My heart burns there, too.”
― Stephen King, It

“My life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight.”
― Hugh Howey, Wool

“He’d only ever seen a gun once, a smaller one on the hip of that old deputy, a gun he’d always figured was more for show. He stuffed a fistful of deadly rounds in his pocket, thinking how each one could end an individual life, and understanding why such things were forbidden. Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one’s conscience to get in the way.”
― Hugh Howey, Wool Omnibus

“Even in the darkness, his smile threw shadows.”
― Hugh Howey, Wool Omnibus

“It was a sad loss, this illusion of importance, a humbling blow.”
― Hugh Howey, Wool Omnibus

“It turned out that some crooked things looked even worse when straightened. Some tangled knots only made sense once unraveled.”
― Hugh Howey, Wool Omnibus

“Imagine the first discovery that one of these epidemics was man-made—the panic, the violence that would ensue. That’s where the end would come. A typhoon kills a few hundred people, does a few billion in damage, and what do we do?” Erskine interlocked his fingers. “We come together. We put the pieces back. But a terrorist’s bomb.” He frowned. “A terrorist’s bomb does the same damage, and it throws the world into turmoil.”
He spread his hands apart like an explosion going off.
“When there’s only God to blame, we forgive him. When it’s our fellow man, we must destroy him.”
― Hugh Howey, Second Shift: Order

“some things are better off back in the past. Where they belong.”
― Hugh Howey, First Shift: Legacy

“He thought of men like Hitler, Stalin, and Napoleon. All it took was a lot of seemingly decent people to put the wrong person in power and then fall under their spell.”
― Hugh Howey, First Shift: Legacy

“Predict the inevitable”, she said, “and you're bound to be right one day.”
― Hugh Howey, Shift

“That's the problem with the truth," Darcy said. "Liars and honest men both claim to have it.”
― Hugh Howey, Dust

“Better to go out to see the world one time with his own eyes, than to be burned alive with the plastic curtains.”
― Hugh Howey, Wool