Full Dark, No Stars Quotes

“I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.”
― Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars

“When it came to the dark fuckery of the human heart, there seemed to be no limit.”
― Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars

“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.”
― Stephen King, 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.”
― Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars

“We never cease wanting what we want, whether it's good for us or not.”
― Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars

“All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs. Take my hand, Constant Reader, and I'll be happy to lead you back into the sunshine. I'm happy to go there because I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.”
― Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars

“Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.”
― Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars

“In the end we are all caught in devices of our own making. I believe that. In the end we are all caught.”
― Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars

“If you're going into a very dark place, then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see, why in God's name would you dare the dark at all?”
― Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars

“They say that loving eyes can never see, but that's a fool's axiom. Sometimes, they see too much”
― Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars

“They say suicides and murderers go to Hell. If so, I will know my way around, because I've been there for the last eight years.”
― Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars

“It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover.”
― Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars

“You could not turn off love- even the rather absent, sometimes taken for granted love- the way you'd turn off a faucet. Love ran from the heart and the heart had it's own imperatives”
― Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars

“This was the Darker Life, where every truth was written backward.”
― Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars

“There are always worse things waiting. You think you have seen the most terrible thing, the one that coalesces all your nightmares into a freakish horror that actually exists, and the only consolation is that there can be nothing worse. Even if there is, your mind will snap at the sight of it, and you will know no more. But there is worse, your mind does not snap, and somehow you carry on. You might understand that all the joy has gone out of the world for you, you might wish you were the one who was dead - but you go on. You might realize that you are in a hell of your own making, but you go on nevertheless. Because there is nothing else to do.”
― Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars

“Why does she have to be such a...such a..."

"Go on," I said. "The truth is never cussing, Son."

"Such a bitch!”
― Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars

“For," I said, "a murdered man or woman dies not in God's time, but in Man's. He... or she... is cut short before he... or she... can atone for sin, and so all errors must be forgiven. When you think of it that way, all murderers are a gateway for heaven.”
― Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars

“Deep inside her (ih her harrowed soul) she felt a glowing ember of fury at the man responsible for this. Tha man who had put her in this position. She looked at the pistol lying beside the basin, and knew that if he were here, she would use it on him without a moment's hesitation. Knowing that made her feel confused about herself. It also made her feel a little stronger.”
― Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars

“How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation.”
― Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars

“Is there hell, or do we make our own on earth?”
― Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars

“If God rewards us on earth for good deeds—the Old Testament suggests it’s so, and the Puritans certainly believed it—then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones.”
― Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars

“Old habits died hard. Often, she thought, they don't die until we do.”
― Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars

“The wife whose sweetly given reply in the face of any problem would be, "Whatever you think is best, dear." Women, take note: a wife like that never needs to fear bubbling away the last of her life through a cut throat.”
― Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars

“Outside, a gusty October breeze was combing leaves from the trees and sending them across her backyard in colorful skitters.”
― Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars

“My girl has got a bun in her oven, and I guess you know who did the damn cooking.”
― Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars

“Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back.”
― Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars

“A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation.”
― Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars

“The souls of humans have become poor and transparent things.”
― Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars

“The two best things in life are warm croissants and a quick way home.”
― Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars

“if you found enough cat hairs in a person's house, you pretty much had to assume there was a feline on the premises somewhere”
― Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars