The Wind Through the Keyhole Quotes

“The best part, though, was hearing my mother's voice. It was like having her again, coming out from far inside me. It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found. You wouldn't think it could be so, but-as the oldtimers used to say - the world's titled, and there's an end to it.”
― Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole

“It was not fair, it was not fair, it was not fair. So cried his child’s heart, and then his child’s heart died a little. For that is also the way of the world.”
― Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole

“There’s nothing like stories on a windy night when folks have found a warm place in a cold world.”
― Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole

“Pray for rain while digging a well.”
― Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole

“en’t never been worth a fart in a high wind.”
― Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole

“Time was a face on the water, & like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow.' - The Wind Through The Keyhole.”
― Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole

“Once Tim asked his father what civilized meant. “Taxes,” Big Ross said, and laughed—”
― Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole

“There’s nothing like stories on a windy night when folks have found a warm place in a cold world.” He”
― Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole

“The best part, though, was hearing my mother's voice. It was like having her again, coming out from far inside me, It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found. You wouldn't think it could be so, but-as the oldtimers used to say - the world's titled, and there's an end to it.”
― Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole

“It was warm beneath the sheet, and the sleeping bulk of his bunkmate made it even warmer. At some point he slipped down their covering enough to see a trillion stars sprawled across the dome of the sky, more than he had ever seen in his life. It was as if the storm had blown tiny holes in the world above the world, and turned it into a sieve. Shining through was all the brilliant mystery of creation. Perhaps such things were not meant for human eyes, but Tim felt sure he had been granted a special dispensation to look, for he was under a blanket of magic, and lying next to a creature even the most credulous villagers in Tree would have dismissed as mythical.”
― Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole

“There are fewer traildrive herds these days, and I expect Debaria will dry up and blow away like so many other places in Mid-World before long, but now it's still a busy place, full of saloons, whoredens, gamblers, and confidence men. Hard as it might be to believe, there are even a few good people there.”
― Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole

“The salt ye take is the salt ye must pay for,”
― Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole

“I could see him fall into the tale, and that pleased me—it was like hypnotizing him again, but in a better way. A more honest way. The best part, though, was hearing my mother’s voice. It was like having her again, coming out from far inside me. It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I’ve found. You wouldn’t think it could be so, but—as the oldtimers used to say—the world’s tilted, and there’s an end to it.”
― Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole

“Although he was in a fever to be off, Tim waited as she asked. The seconds seemed like minutes, the minutes like hours, but she returned at last. “I made sure you were gone,” said she, and the old woman could not have wounded Tim more if she had whipped his face with a quirt.”
― Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole

“See the Eagle’s brilliant eye, And wings on which he holds the sky! He spies the land and spies the sea And even spies a child like me.”
― Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole

“The only stupid question, my cullies, is the one you don’t ask.”
― Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole

“for he leaves ruin and weeping in his wake,”
― Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole

“Time is a keyhole, he thought as he looked up at the stars. Yes, I think so. We sometimes bend and peer through it. And the wind we feel on our cheeks when we do – the wind that blows through the keyhole – is the breath of all the living universe.”
― Stephen King, The Wind through the Keyhole

“No parece que vayáis armada, señora, pero con las mujeres uno nunca puede fiarse.”
― Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole

“When ka comes, it comes like the wind, like the starkblast.”
― Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole

“Oh, kiss my ass and go to heaven!” she screamed. “You cock-knocking motherfucker, just lookit this shittin mess!”
― Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole

“The salt ye take is the salt ye must pay for, as anyone from these parts will tell you.”
― Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole

“Bete um Regen, so lange du willst, aber grab nach Wasser, während du es tust.”
― Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole

“In der richtigen Hand kann jedes Ding Magie bewirken.”
― Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole

“»Was ist Amerika?«
»Ein Königreich voller Spielsachen liebender Idioten.”
― Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole

“Tim hatte seinen Vater einmal gefragt, was zivilisiert bedeute.
»Steuern«, hatte er gesagt und gelacht – aber nicht wie über etwas Komisches.”
― Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole

“Es war eine schöne Zeit, aber wie wir wissen – aus Geschichten und aus dem Leben –, dauern schöne Zeiten nie lange an.”
― Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole

“Everlynne. Die würde noch dem Teufel ins Gesicht spucken. Und nähme er sie mit sich hinunter nach Nis, würde sie binnen kurzer Zeit den Laden übernehmen.”
― Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole

“Das Salz, das man nimmt, ist das Salz, für das man zahlen muss, das kann euch hierzulande jeder sagen.”
― Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole

“Wenn die Fakten sprechen, hört der kluge Mann zu.‹ Dreiundzwanzig Tote ergeben einen ganzen Berg von Fakten.”
― Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole