The Bachman Books Quotes

“I do have one slightly crooked wheel upstairs, but everything else is ticking along just four-o, thank you very much.”
― Stephen King, The Bachman Books

“turnpike itself. Garraty”
― Richard Bachman, The Bachman Books

“A nice street, Fred. A nice neighborhood. Oh, I know how the intellectuals sneer at suburbia - it's not as romantic as the rat-infested tenements or the hale-and-hearty back-to-the-land stuff. There are no great museums in suburbia, no great forests, no great challenges.”
― Richard Bachman, The Bachman Books

“You can't stop your mind; the damn thing just keeps right on going.”
― Stephen King, The Bachman Books

“I went down the staircase whistling; I felt wonderful. Things happen that way sometimes. When everything is at its worst, your mind just throws it all into the wastebasket and goes to Florida for a little while.”
― Stephen King, The Bachman Books

“They give me custard and I hate it, but I eat it just the same. They think I like it. So I have a secret again. Finally I have a secret again... About the custard: it's only a little secret, but having a secret makes me feel better. Like a human being again.”
― Stephen King, The Bachman Books

“I had time to think: We have got it on. Now we have got it all the way on.”
― Stephen King, The Bachman Books

“This thing on the floor between my feet is a classic case of misplaced aggression.”
― Stephen King, The Bachman Books

“I didn't know whether to feel disgust or pity suddenly. It occurred to me that the man I really wanted to hurt was safely out of my reach, standing behind a shield of years.”
― Stephen King, The Bachman Books

“Maybe he had forgotten or never knew that little boys grow up remembering every blow and word of scorn, that they grow up and want to eat their fathers alive.”
― Stephen King, The Bachman Books

“I slid an exploratory finger into her, thinking: This is the place. This is the place men like my father joke about on hunting trips and in barber shops. Men kill for this. Force it open. Steal it or bludgeon it. Take it or leave it.”
― Stephen King, The Bachman Books

“I feel like this is all," she said.
"Either all brains or all cunt," Carol said with brittle good humor. "Doesn't leave room for much else, does it?”
― Stephen King, The Bachman Books

“People tear you down, that's it. They grind you if you let them, just like Pig Pen said. They all want to pull you down to their level and make you dirty. Look at what they are doing to you, Charlie.”
― Stephen King, The Bachman Books

“Everything beyond the windows was television. They were the show, not me. My classmates felt the same way. It was on their faces.”
― Stephen King, The Bachman Books

“He was strong, but I was desperate.”
― Stephen King, The Bachman Books

“After a while, being somebody's responsibility makes them hate you.”
― Stephen King, The Bachman Books

“Ted's eyes, even full of darkness, stayed steady.”
― Stephen King, The Bachman Books

“Craziness is only a matter of degree, and there are lots of people besides me who have the urge to roll heads.”
― Stephen King, The Bachman Books

“I won't play a cheap parlor game with human lives for party favors, Charlie. "
"Congratulations to you," I said. "You just described modern psychiatry.”
― Stephen King, The Bachman Books

“Maybe now they would play my game, all these shysters and whores.”
― Stephen King, The Bachman Books

“I looked over at her, surprised. Susan Brooks was one of those girls who never say anything unless called upon, the ones that teachers always have to ask to speak up, please. A very studious, very serious girl. A rather pretty but not terribly bright girl-the kind who isn't allowed to give up and take the general or the commercial courses, because she had a terribly bright older brother or older sister, and teachers expect comparable things from her. In fine, one of those girls who are holding the dirty end of the stick with as much good grace and manners as they can muster. Usually they marry truck drivers and move to the West Coast, where they have kitchen nooks with Formica counters-and they write letters to the Folks Back East as seldom as they can get away with. They make quiet, successful lives for themselves and grow prettier as the shadow of the bright older brother or sister falls away from them.”
― Stephen King, The Bachman Books

“Teacher, teacher, ring the bell, My lessons all to you I'll tell, And when my day at school is through, I'll know more than aught I knew.”
― Stephen King, The Bachman Books

“If I knew what was making me do it, I probably wouldn't have to.”
― Stephen King, The Bachman Books

“So what are we going to do?" Jack Goldman asked.
"Just get it on," I said. "That's all.”
― Stephen King, The Bachman Books

“I got Mrs. Underwood's green attendance book and opened it up. "Period two, right?"
"Yeah," Corky said.
"Okay. Here we go. Irma Bates?"
"I want to go home! " Irma screamed defiantly.
"She's here," I said.”
― Stephen King, The Bachman Books

“And all that weirdness isn't just going on outside. It's in you too, right now, growing in the dark.”
― Stephen King, The Bachman Books

“I think; therefore I am. There are hairs on my face; therefore I shave. My wife and child have been critically injured in a car crash; therefore I pray.”
― Stephen King, The Bachman Books

“The Cherokees used to slit their noses. The idea was to put a cunt right up on their faces so everyone in the tribe could see what part of them got them in trouble.”
― Stephen King, The Bachman Books

“We don’t bring anything into the world and we sure as shit don’t take anything out.’ ‘Yes, but the period in between those two events is more pleasant in comfort, don’t you think?’ McVries said.”
― Richard Bachman, The Bachman Books