John Wright

“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, did you?”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons: Four Novellas

“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.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost;”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“they delved too greedily and too deep, and disturbed that from which they fled,”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring