Tim Taylor > Tim's Quotes

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

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

“Wherever I have been, I am back,” he answered in the genuine Gandalf manner.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

“You see, a conflict always begins with an issue—a difference of opinion, an argument. But by the time it turns into a war, the issue doesn’t matter anymore, because now it’s about one thing and one thing only: how much each side hates the other.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

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

“A brave man helps. A coward just gives presents.”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“What’s Lynparza? I know the other ones he takes, but not that one. What’s it do?” Her smile faded. “I can’t tell you that, Charlie. Patient confidentiality.” She slid behind the wheel. “But you could look it up on the Internet. Everything’s on the Net.”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“Whiskey doesn’t smell the same as gin… yet it does. All alcohol smells the same to me, of sadness and loss.”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“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.”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“If you want to change how you see your problems, you have to change what you value and/or how you measure failure/success.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“The more something threatens your identity, the more you will avoid it.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“Don’t ever doubt Daisy Jones.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“All I will say is that you show up for your friends on their hardest days. And you hold their hand through the roughest parts. Life is about who is holding your hand and, I think, whose hand you commit to holding.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“I hear the crack of his skull before the spattering of blood reaches me.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“The first is dark-haired. He stands on the brink of robbery and murder. A demon has infested him. The name of the demon is HEROIN.”
― Stephen King, The Drawing of the Three

“coming in from Nassau your driver’s licence and a credit card with a stateside bank listed on it was supposed to be enough, but most still carried passports”
― Stephen King, The Drawing of the Three

“Okay. The question is, ‘What enormously popular novel by William Peter Blatty, set in the posh Washington D.C. suburb of Georgetown, concerned the demonic possession of a young girl?’ ” “Johnny Cash,” Henry replied. “Jesus Christ!” Tricks Postino yelled. “That’s what you say to everythin! Johnny Cash, that’s what you say to fuckin everythin!” “Johnny Cash is everything,” Henry replied”
― Stephen King, The Drawing of the Three

“16 It was no misfire.”
― Stephen King, The Drawing of the Three

“Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.”
― Stephen King

“It’s God’s revenge, you know it? All those years you spent as a junkie, and guess what? You’re finally the pusher!”
― Stephen King, The Drawing of the Three

“she talks like a cliche. Do you know that word?” “It means what is always said or believed by people who think only a little or not at all.”
― Stephen King, The Drawing of the Three

“Those gods might not punish at once, but sooner or later the penance would have to be paid . . . and the longer the wait, the greater the weight.”
― Stephen King, The Waste Lands

“The lessons which are remembered the longest, Roland knew, are always the ones that are self-taught.”
― Stephen King, The Waste Lands

“And fire was evil stuff that delighted in escaping the hands which created it.”
― Stephen King, The Waste Lands

“ ‘I do not aim with my hand; she who aims with her hand has forgotten the face of her father. “ ‘I aim with my eye. “ ‘I do not shoot with my hand; she who shoots with her hand has forgotten the face of her father. “ ‘I shoot with my mind. “ ‘I do not kill with my gun—’ ”
― Stephen King, The Waste Lands

“I do not aim with my hand; she who aims with her hand has forgotten the face of her father. “ ‘I aim with my eye.’ ” “Good.” “ ‘I do not shoot with my hand; she who shoots with her hand has forgotten the face of her father. “ ‘I shoot with my mind.’ ” “So it has ever been, Susannah Dean.” “ ‘I do not kill with my gun; she who kills with her gun has forgotten the face of her father. “ ‘I kill with my heart.’ ” “Then KILL them, for your father’s sake!” Roland shouted. “KILL THEM ALL!”
― Stephen King, The Waste Lands

“Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.”
― Stephen King, The Waste Lands

“Eddie was a willing prisoner.”
― Stephen King, The Waste Lands