End of Watch Quotes

“Because things can get better, and if you give them a chance, they usually do.”
― Stephen King, End of Watch

“Being needed is a great thing. Maybe the great thing.”
― Stephen King, End of Watch

“Payback is a bitch, and the bitch is back.”
― Stephen King, End of Watch

“If life hands you lemons, make lemonade! Words to live by, especially when you kept in mind that the only way to make them into lemonade was to squeeze the hell out of them.”
― Stephen King, End of Watch

“It’s about how some people carelessly squander what others would sell their souls to have: a healthy, pain-free body. And why? Because they’re too blind, too emotionally scarred, or too self-involved to see past the earth’s dark curve to the next sunrise. Which always comes, if one continues to draw breath.”
― Stephen King, End of Watch

“You play the game to the end. That’s how it works; play to the end.”
― Stephen King, End of Watch

“The seeds sown in childhood put down deep roots.”
― Stephen King, End of Watch

“End of watch is what they call it, but Hodges himself has found it impossible to give up watching.”
― Stephen King, End of Watch

“You’re a Frankenstein!”
“Don’t confuse the monster with the creator.”
― Stephen King, End of Watch

“Bill Hodges is her touchstone, the way she measures her ability to interact with the world. Which is only another way of saying that he is the way she measures her sanity. Trying to imagine her life with him gone is like standing on top of a skyscraper and looking at the sidewalk sixty stories below.”
― Stephen King, End of Watch

“One last thing. End of Watch is fiction, but the high rate of suicides—both in the United States and in many other countries where my books are read—is all too real. The National Suicide Prevention Hotline number given in this book is also real. It’s 1-800-273-TALK. If you are feeling poopy (as Holly Gibney would say), give them a call. Because things can get better, and if you give them a chance, they usually do. Stephen”
― Stephen King, End of Watch

“Too late always comes too early. She”
― Stephen King, End of Watch

“That’s me, Brady thought happily. When they give your middle name, you know you’re an authentic boogeyman.”
― Stephen King, End of Watch

“When nurses drink, they have a tendency to go all in. They’re like cops that way.”
― Stephen King, End of Watch

“Crying harder than ever, because she knows he’s telling the truth about needing her. And being needed is a great thing. Maybe the great thing.”
― Stephen King, End of Watch

“The seeds sown in childhood put down deep roots. At”
― Stephen King, End of Watch

“It’s always darkest before the dawn.”
― Stephen King, End of Watch

“I arrested some bad doers when I was on the cops, some very bad doers – one was a mother who killed her three-year-old for insurance that didn’t amount to a hill of beans – but I never felt the presence of evil in any of them once they were caught. It’s like evil’s some kind of vulture that flies away once these mokes are locked up. But I felt it that day, Holly. I really did. I felt it in Brady Hartsfield.”
― Stephen King, End of Watch

“The Golden Tits of America!” Jason Rapsis cried from the shotgun seat. Rob had worked with any number of paramedics over his fifteen years as an EMT, and Jace Rapsis was the best: easygoing when nothing was happening, unflappable and sharply focused when everything was happening at once. “We shall be fed! God bless capitalism! Pull in, pull in!”
― Stephen King, End of Watch

“Mrs. Bradley’s explanation: to make an irrevocable decision. What he learned later, sometimes to his sorrow, is that one comes upon most Rubicons unprepared.”
― Stephen King, End of Watch

“For days it can be good, weeks, even, and then there’s something to swallow.”
― Stephen King, End of Watch

“Now stop fucking around and look at the fishies. You know you want to.”
― Stephen King, End of Watch

“In southern Wales, dozens of teens hung themselves between 2007 and 2009, with messages on social networking sites stoking the craze. Even the goodbyes they left were couched in Netspeak: Me2 and CU L8er.”
― Stephen King, End of Watch

“Holly hangs up, washes her face in the tiny lavatory, reapplies”
― Stephen King, End of Watch

“He began to understand what contentment actually was: the emotional version of the horse latitudes, where all the winds died away and one simply drifted. It ensued when one ran out of goals to grow. • • • This”
― Stephen King, End of Watch

“It’s about how some people carelessly squander what others would sell their souls to have: a healthy, pain-free body. And why? Because they’re too blind, too emotionally scarred, or too self-involved to see past the earth’s dark curve to the next sunrise. Which always comes, if one continues to draw breath. “More”
― Stephen King, End of Watch

“Memory has a way of slipping a few gears after sixty-five, when people round the third turn start down the home stretch. He”
― Stephen King, End of Watch

“You can find anything on the Internet, he has discovered. Some of it is helpful. Some of it is interesting. Some of it is funny. And some of it is fucking awful.”
― Stephen King, End of Watch

“And why? Because they’re too blind, too emotionally scarred, or too self-involved to see past the earth’s dark curve to the next sunrise. Which always comes, if one continues to draw breath.”
― Stephen King, End of Watch

“Emily Dickinson said her poem was her letter to the world that never wrote to her, they read that in school, but Barbara herself has never written a letter at all.”
― Stephen King, End of Watch