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“Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.”
― It
― It

“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.”
― Misery
Art consists of the persistence of memory.”
― Misery

“I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.”
― 11/22/63
― 11/22/63

“As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?”
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“But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.”
― Carrie
― Carrie

“So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little.”
― Dark Tower Set
― Dark Tower Set

“If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone”
― Wizard and Glass
― Wizard and Glass

“We are going to fight. We are going to be hurt. And in the end, we will stand.”
― The Drawing of the Three
― The Drawing of the Three

“If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest, nothing on your bedroom night table but the newest Dan Brown novel, and nothing in your bathroom but Jokes for the John, I’ll chase you down to the end of your driveway and back, screaming ‘Where are your books? You graduated college ten years ago, so how come there are no damn books in your house? Why are you living on the intellectual equivalent of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese?”
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“He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it set in again.”
― Full Dark, No Stars
― Full Dark, No Stars

“Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.”
― Full Dark, No Stars
― Full Dark, No Stars

“Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up”
― It
― It

“What if I fall?', Tim cried.
Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do.”
― The Wind Through the Keyhole
Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do.”
― The Wind Through the Keyhole

“At the end of her life she was aware of heat but not pain. She had time to consider his eyes, eyes of that blue which is the color of the sky at first light of the morning. She had time to think of him on the Drop, riding Rusher flat out with his black hair flying back from his temples and his neckerchief rippling; to see him laughing with an ease and freedom he would never find again in the long life which stretched out for him beyond hers, and it was his laughter she took with her as she went out, fleeing the light and heat in to the silkly, consoling dark, calling to him over and over as she went, calling bird and bear and hare and fish.”
― Wizard and Glass
― Wizard and Glass

“I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.”
― Doctor Sleep
― Doctor Sleep

“I was being paid to do what I loved, and there's no gig on earth better than that; it's like a license to steal.”
― Bag of Bones
― Bag of Bones

“Wahnsinn ist, wenn man nicht mehr die Nähte sehen kann, mit denen die Welt zusammengenäht ist.”
― Rage
― Rage

“So sind die Dinge manchmal. Wenn alles am schlimmsten ist, dann wirft der Verstand alles in einen Papierkorb und geht für eine Weile nach Florida. Da ist ein Was-zur-Hölle-soll's?-Gefühl in einem, während man da-steht und über die Schulter zu der Brücke zurückblickt, die man soeben niedergebrannt hat.”
― Rage
― Rage
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