The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon Quotes

“It was like drowning, only from the inside out.”
― Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

“The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.”
― Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

“The world is a worst case scenario and I'm afraid that all you sense is true”
― Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

“The world has teeth and it can bite you with them any time it wants.”
― Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

“You could get used to anything if you had to.”
― Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

“Shadows were too black, and when a breeze stirred the trees, the shadows changed in a disquieting way.”
― Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

“Let it eat her; let it beat her. It could do both. But she would not beat herself.”
― Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

“I don’t believe in any actual thinking God that marks the fall of every bird in Australia or every bug in India, a God that records all of our sins in a big golden book and judges us when we die—I don’t want to believe in a God who would deliberately create bad people and then deliberately send them to roast in a hell He created—but I believe there has to be something.”
― Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

“It's God's nature to come on in the bottom of the ninth, Tom had told her.”
― Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

“I've got icewater in my veins and I hope you freeze on the first bite. Come on, you busher! Batter-fucking-up!”
― Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

“You could get used to anything if you had to. She knew that now.”
― Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

“She pushed the button and like a miracle her head filled with the sound of Jerry Trupiano’s voice… and more importantly, with the sounds of Fenway Park. She was sitting out here in the darkening, drippy woods, lost and alone, but she could hear thirty thousand people. It was a miracle.”
― Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

“Part of her wanted to run. Never mind how flowing water was bound to take her to people eventually, all that was likely just a crock of Little House of the Prairie shit.”
― Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

“She had a bottle of water in her pack—a big one with a squeeze-top—but suddenly all Trisha wanted in the world was to prime the pump in the little hut and get a drink, cold and fresh, from its rusty lip. She would drink and pretend she was Bilbo Baggins, on his way to the Misty Mountains.”
― Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

“No matter what you had to do or how bad you had to do it, no matter how much yatata-yatata you had to listen to, it was better to stay on the path.”
― Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

“Let the evil of the day be sufficient thereof,”
― Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

“Il mondo aveva i denti e in qualsiasi momento ti poteva morsicare. Questo Trisha McFarland scoprì a nove anni.”
― Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

“It’s a special thing, Trisha—the thing that waits for the lost ones. It lets them wander until they’re good and scared—because fear makes them taste better, it sweetens the flesh—and then it comes for them.”
― Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

“Better to be dead than to be lost.”
― King Stephen, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

“Hey, the fact that no one's used a nuclear weapon on actual living people since 1945 suggests there has to be something on our side. Sooner or later someone will, of course, but over half a century ... that's a long time.”
― King Stephen, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

“The thing that looked like a bear gazed down on her haughtily from its seven feet of height. Its head was in the sky and its claws held the earth.”
― Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

“Изведнъж започна да се дави в изолацията, да се задушава от яркото, потискащо усещане за себе си като живо същество, откъснато от себеподобните си. Беше излязла извън границите, скиташе се извън игралното поле, в пространство, където правилата, с които бе свикнала, вече не важаха.”
― Стивън Кинг, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

“She found a stream and followed it for awhile and then it either quit on her or she wandered away from it. Before this happened, however, she looked into it and saw an enormous face on the bottom, drowned but somehow still living, looking up at her and talking soundlessly. She passed a great gray tree like a hollow crooked hand; from within it, a dead voice spoke her name.”
― Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

“Alone in a place where her town-girl vocabulary had little use, and she was consequently left with just a narrow range of recognition and reaction, all of it primitive.”
― Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

“She felt like someone who drowns remembering what it was like to still be on the boat, so calm and at ease, so carelessly safe.”
― Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

“It’s a special thing, Trisha—the thing that waits for the lost ones. It lets them wander until they’re good and scared—because fear makes them taste better, it sweetens the flesh”
― Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

“some day some hunter will come along and find your bones.”
― Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

“what if she just said Hey Pete, fuck you, deal with it instead of trying to be either all quiet and sympathetic or all bright and cheery and let’s-change-the-subject? Just Hey Pete, that’s a big fuck you, like that?”
― Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

“Außerdem kommst du vielleicht nie in Petes Alter, sagte die beunruhigende innere Stimme. Wie konnte man bloß eine so kalte und beängstigende Stimme in sich haben? Eine solche Verräterin an der eigenen Sache? Vielleicht kommst du nie aus diesem Wald heraus.”
― Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

“Als sie die linke Tür des Fahrerhauses erreichte, die halb offen in festgerosteten Scharnieren hing und durch deren Fensterrahmen, der einer leeren Augenhöhle glich, sich Ranken schlängelten, zuckte wieder ein Blitz herab und färbte die ganze Welt purpurrot. In seinem grellen Licht sah Trisha jenseits der Straße etwas stehen, etwas mit hängenden Schultern, mit schwarzen Augen und großen aufgestellten Ohren, die wie Hörner aussahen.”
― Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon