John Wright
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Remember that hope is a good thing, Red, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, did you?”
― Different Seasons: Four Novellas
― Different Seasons: Four Novellas
“Hell of a world we live in, huh? (…) But it could be worse, huh?”
“That’s right,” I said, “or even worse, it could be perfect.”
― The Gernsback Continuum
“That’s right,” I said, “or even worse, it could be perfect.”
― The Gernsback Continuum
“When I was talking to her in my office, about Church, I got thinking about my mother and how she spun me that old cabbage-leaf story when I asked her where women got babies. I’ve never forgotten that lie. I don’t think children ever forget the lies their parents tell them.”
― Pet Sematary
― Pet Sematary
“Remember that hope is a good thing, Red, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”
― The Shawshank Redemption
― The Shawshank Redemption
“He sighed and took another comic book off the stack. Some ridiculous fucking thing called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The Ninja Turtles were supposed to be “heroes on a half-shell.” He threw Raphael, Donatello, and their numbfuck buddies across the store and the comic book they inhabited fluttered down in a tent shape on top of a cash register. It was things like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, he thought, that made you believe the world was maybe just as well off destroyed.”
― The Stand
― The Stand
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