Black House Quotes

“Ka is a friend to evil as well as good. It embraces both.”
― Stephen King, Black House

“What you love, you must love all the harder because someday it will be gone.”
― Stephen King, Black House

“Case closed, game over, zip up your fly.”
― Stephen King, Black House

“RIGHT HERE AND NOW, as an old friend used to say, we are in the fluid present, where clear-sightedness never guarantees perfect vision.”
― Stephen King, Black House

“The King is in his Tower, eating bread and honey. The Breakers in the basement, making all the money.”
― Stephen King, Black House

“In the brain of a madman only the fuming present exists, with its endless shouting urges, paranoid speculations, and grandiose assumptions.”
― Stephen King, Black House

“The mad King, the bad King, the sad King. Ring-a-ding-ding, all hail the King!”
― Stephen King, Black House

“She’s looking at him with something like wonder. “Why do you weep, Jack?” “The past,” he says. “Isn’t that always what does it?” And thinks of his mother, sitting by the window, smoking a cigarette, and listening while the radio plays “Crazy Arms.” Yes, it’s always the past. That’s where the hurt is, all you can’t get over.”
― Stephen King, Black House

“The lobby of the Nelson Hotel always smells of the river -- it's in the pores of the place -- but this evening the smell is heavier than usual. It's a smell that makes us think of bad ideas, blown investments, forged checks, deteriorating health, stolen office supplies, unpaid alimony, empty promises, skin tumors, lost ambition, abandoned sample cases filled with cheap novelties, dead hope, dead skin, and fallen arches.

This is the kind of place you don't come to unless you've been here before and all your other options are pretty much foreclosed. It's a place where men who left their families two decades before now lie on narrow beds with pee-stained mattresses, coughing and smoking cigarettes.”
― Stephen King, Black House

“Every step outside one’s own door invites the world (perhaps even the universe),”
― Stephen King, Black House

“For those of us who are not members of a biker gang or the Marine Corps, solidarity means little more than the compassionate impulse that leads us to comfort a bereft friend; for Beezer and his merry band, solidarity is the assurance that someone's always got your back.”
― Stephen King, Black House

“Tyler rolls out of bed, sniffs the armpits of yesterday's T-shirt, tosses it aside, gets another out of the drawer. His dad sometimes asks him why he sets his alarm so early -- it's summer vacation, after all -- and Tyler can't seem to make him understand that every day is important, especially those filled with warmth and sunlight and no particular responsibilities. It's as if there's some little voice deep inside him, warning him not to waste a minute, not a single one, because time is short.”
― Stephen King, Black House

“Do you see this heart-stopping beauty? Look closely, because in a moment your heart will stop.”
― Stephen King, Black House

“the sun stands low in the cloudless eastern sky, a fat, confident yellow-white ball advancing as ever for the first time toward the future and leaving in its wake the steadily accumulating past, which darkens as it recedes, making blind men of us all.”
― Stephen King, Black House

“by the side of a road and drove off. Whenever the careering grandkids”
― Stephen King, Black House

“has never wanted to listen to anything any less in his life (with the possible exception of Chicago singing “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?”),”
― Stephen King, Black House

“Es sind die Träume von Mr. Munshun, Burnys engstem Freund und liebendem Herrn, einem Geschöpf endloser und perverser Freuden.”
― Stephen King, Black House

“Weil’s ein schlechter Ort war«, wirft Sonny ein. »Solche Orte kenne ich. Sie wollen nicht, dass man sie betritt, und lassen es einen auch wissen.”
― Stephen King, Black House

“Sein Verstand ist vielleicht nicht für immer futsch, aber momentan zumindest mit Kind und Kegel nach Disney World aufgebrochen.”
― Stephen King, Black House

“Dass er siegen muss, heißt noch lange nicht, dass er auch siegen wird; auch stolze Weltreiche und ehrwürdige Epochen sind schon in den Staub gesunken, und der Scharlachrote König kann aus dem Turm ausbrechen, in einer Welt nach der anderen wüten und überall Chaos verursachen.”
― Stephen King, Black House

“Diese Trauer lässt sich nicht mindern oder beugen; sie stützt sein Rückgrat wie ein Stahlkorsett.”
― Stephen King, Black House

“You’ll be able to break just as well,’ Burny said. ‘It’s just that when you fart, you’ll have to do the old one-cheek sneak every time!”
― Stephen King, Black House

“Black House – like Shirley Jackson’s Hill House, like the turn-of-the-century monstrosity in Seattle known as Rose Red”
― Stephen King, Black House

“Levelheadedness and lack of self-pity are a great combination, Jack thinks; they go a long way toward defining courage.”
― Stephen King, Black House

“He has the lardy, slightly oily aroma of someone who has been overweight almost from the jump.”
― Stephen King, Black House

“I must not be so bad if I have a friend like that.”
― Stephen King, Black House

“Who?” she whispers. Gorg stretches its black and rustling neck until its black beak is actually in the cup of her ear. It begins to whisper, and eventually Tansy Freneau begins to nod. The light of sanity has left her eyes. And when will it return? Oh, I think we all know the answer to that one. Can you say “Nevermore”?”
― Stephen King, Black House

“Don’t look to your friends for therapy.”
― Stephen King, Black House

“Try to imagine the purity and sweetness of smelling a radish pulled out the ground a mile away.”
― Stephen King, Black House

“You can scare him, you bet—he’s a retired salesman, not Superman—but if you load enough tension on top of fright you turn it into anger, same as enough pressure turns coal into a diamond.”
― Stephen King, Black House