11/22/63 Quotes

“I learned about the right jack, double runs, being stuck in the mudhole, and what Andy called “mystic nineteen”—the so-called impossible hand.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“That’s a big room up there, and a .38 doesn’t have much accuracy from a distance.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“Women are good at rhetorical questions, aren’t they?”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“One of the things nobody tells you about the glamorous job of chaperoning teenage dances is that the shaps are the ones who have to make sure everything’s picked up and locked away once the music ends.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“I don’t understand you at all. That concerns me.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“women are better at keeping secrets, but men are more comfortable with them.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“We never get so mad as when we get caught, do we?”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“Dumb. But stupidity is one of two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“I buy the same ground chuck week after week. I’ve fed it to hundreds or thousands of people, in spite of those stupid catburger rumors, and it always renews itself.”
― Stephen King, 11.22.63

“The multiple choices and possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to. They are like strings on a guitar. Strum them and you create a pleasing sound. A harmonic. But then start adding strings. Ten strings, a hundred strings, a thousand, a million.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“Who the fuck’re you?” he asked, only it came out Hoo-a fuck-a you? Al hadn’t given me detailed instructions on how to answer questions, so I said what seemed safest. “None of your fucking business.” “Well fuck you, too.” “Fine,” I said. “We are in accord.” “Huh?”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“In God we trust,” I said. “All others pay cash.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“To this day I’m not entirely sure what hematocrit and hemoglobin are, but mine started to come back up and that pleased everybody.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“You know how, on a bright day, you can close your eyes and see an afterimage of whatever you were just looking at? It was like that.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“Nor was that strange; everyone knows that, for such an unforgiving thing, time is uniquely malleable.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“But he just pushed her away and said, ‘Pokhoda, cyka!’ Walk, bitch. She did. They went off down toward the bus stop. And that was it.” “You speak Russian?” “No, but I have a good ear and a computer.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“The snick of the catch was very loud.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“Cartography. A watershed is an area of land, usually mountains or forests, that drains into a river. History is also a river. Wouldn’t you say so?”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“Like they say in the infomercials, you’re under no obligation.” Right. On the other hand, my mother would have said the devil’s voice is sweet. But I sat down.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“There’s nothing like TV when it comes to eroding a regional accent.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“Come back anytime, son. I’m thinking about lowering the price on the large.” “To a dime?” He grinned. Like his son’s, it was easy and open. “Now you’re cooking with gas.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“In my humble opinion, things do happen for a reason, but do we like the reason? Rarely.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“Who can find a virtuous woman? the proverb asks. For her price is above rubies. She seeketh wool and flax and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants’ ships, that bringeth food from afar.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“You know what I do? I laugh and say ‘Okay, svinoyeb,’ and walk away. He’s a pig’s dick, and ever’one knows it.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“But he just pushed her away and said, ‘Pokhoda, cyka!’ Walk, bitch. She did.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“Other than when I got the news about Mom, I can only remember one other time when I cried as an adult, and that was when I read the story of the janitor’s father. I was sitting alone in the teachers’ room at Lisbon High School, working my way through a stack of themes that my Adult English class had written.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“When he raised his hand to wipe his chin, the card clutched in it had no longer been yellow. This time it was a dirty but still bright orange.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“It did, but I remembered a hoary old time-travel paradox and pulled it out. “Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather?” He stared at me, baffled. “Why the fuck would you do that?”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“Ma io credo nell'amore, sapete. L'amore è vera magia portatile: non credo sia nelle stelle, ma credo che sangue chiami sangue e mente chiami mente e cuore chiami cuore.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“-L'uomo con la Tessera Gialla è l'incarnazione del passato inflessibile. Lo sai, vero?
Sì, lo sapevo.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63