You Like It Darker Quotes

“The world is full of rattlesnakes. Sometimes you step on them and they don’t bite. Sometimes you step over them and they bite anyway.”
― Stephen King, You Like It Darker

“Grief sleeps but doesn’t die. At least not until the griever does.”
― Stephen King, You Like It Darker

“Horror stories are best appreciated by those who are compassionate and empathetic. A paradox, but a true one. I believe it is the unimaginative among us, those incapable of appreciating the dark side of make-believe, who have been responsible for most of the world’s woes. In stories of the supernatural and paranormal, I have tried especially hard to show the real world as it is, and to tell the truth about the America I know and love.”
― Stephen King, You Like It Darker

“Imagination is hungry, and needs to be fed.”
― Stephen King, You Like It Darker

“Horror stories are best appreciated by those who are compassionate and empathetic. A paradox, but a true one. I believe it is the unimaginative among us, those incapable of appreciating the dark side of make-believe, who have been responsible for most of the world’s woes.”
― Stephen King, You Like It Darker

“scars become beauty marks when there is love.”
― Stephen King, You Like It Darker

“that lack of belief is the curse of intelligence.”
― Stephen King, You Like It Darker

“He thought a person’s skin was thinner in the small hours. It didn’t start to thicken again until five, when the first light began to show in the east.”
― Stephen King, You Like It Darker

“It’s all right to want what you can’t have. You learn to live with it. I tell myself that, and mostly I believe it.”
― Stephen King, You Like It Darker

“I should have come to see him these last years, but I was busy with my own affairs. I thought to myself, there’s time. We always think that, I guess. Then time runs out.”
― Stephen King, You Like It Darker

“Well, I tell myself, we call it a gift and we call ourselves gifted, but gifts are never really earned, are they? Only given. Talent is grace made visible.”
― Stephen King, You Like It Darker

“They were proof that life was basically a short dream on a summer afternoon.”
― Stephen King, You Like It Darker

“We thought we were old but we didn’t know what old was.”
― Stephen King, You Like It Darker

“There’s a line from Scorsese’s Mean Streets that’s always resonated with me: “You don’t fuck around with the infinite.”
― Stephen King, You Like It Darker

“Gravity is greedy for the dead and wants them in the ground.”
― Stephen King, You Like It Darker

“He laughed, then looked surprised… as if he hadn’t known he could laugh. “Nothing can give you what isn’t already there. This is axiomatic.”
― Stephen King, You Like It Darker

“Some couples find a tougher love that endures after the romance thins away. Some couples discover that tougher love just isn’t in their repertoire. Instead of discussing money, they argue about it. Suspicion replaces trust. Secrets blossom in the shadows.”
― Stephen King, You Like It Darker

“Duma was the Key that was supposed to have been haunted—so Mr. Ito had told me”
― Stephen King, You Like It Darker

“Marriage is honesty; it’s also a repository of shared secrets.”
― Stephen King, You Like It Darker

“Nothing can give you what isn’t already there. This is axiomatic.”
― Stephen King, You Like It Darker

“I remember thinking that the fading of hopes and ambitions was mostly painless. That was good, but it was also rather horrible. I wanted to be a writer, but I was beginning to think being a good one was beyond me.”
― Stephen King, You Like It Darker

“If I name her she’s mine, Lloyd thought, only he suspected she was his already, and had been from that first tentative lick. The way that Marian had been his from the first kiss. Another stupid comparison, but could you control how your mind sorted things? No more than you could control your dreams.”
― Stephen King, You Like It Darker

“The daydreams of men and women ‘of a certain age’ are always sad, I think, because they run so counter to the plain-vanilla futures we have to look forward to.”
― Stephen King, You Like It Darker

“People have problems enough coping with their own tragedies without taking on the tragedies of others.”
― Stephen King, You Like It Darker

“Men are lucky to have even one good friend.”
― Stephen King, You Like It Darker

“Robert Frost said home is the place that, when you go there, they have to take you in. It’s also the place you start from, and if you’re one of the lucky ones, it’s where you finish up. Butch died in Seattle, a stranger in a strange land. Maybe that was okay with him, but I have to wonder if in the end he wouldn’t have preferred a little dirt road and the lakeside forest known as the 30-Mile Wood.”
― Stephen King, You Like It Darker

“Gossip is like radioactive waste. It has a long and toxic half-life.”
― Stephen King, You Like It Darker

“Horror stories are best appreciated by those who are compassionate and empathetic.”
― Stephen King, You Like It Darker

“That’s what the Internet’s good for, spreading information.” Not to mention mental illness, Wilson thinks.”
― Stephen King, You Like It Darker

“It occurs to Ella that lack of belief is the curse of intelligence.”
― Stephen King, You Like It Darker