The Long Way Home Quotes

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.” —Stephen King”
― Richard Chizmar, The Long Way Home

“Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. —Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption”
― Richard Chizmar, The Long Way Home

“The most important things are the hardest to say…because words diminish them. —The Body”
― Richard Chizmar, The Long Way Home

“Life was such a wheel…and it always, at the end, came round to the same place again. —The Stand”
― Richard Chizmar, The Long Way Home

“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work. —On Writing”
― Richard Chizmar, The Long Way Home

“The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there…and still on your feet. —The Stand”
― Richard Chizmar, The Long Way Home

“Books are a uniquely portable magic. —On Writing”
― Richard Chizmar, The Long Way Home

“You forget when you’re young. The world is too big, the sky too bright, the days and nights filled with too many possibilities. So you go where the wind carries you, and you forget. Sometimes even magic slips away.”
― Richard Chizmar, The Long Way Home

“Sometimes when you’re young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you’re living on someplace magical like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two. —Hearts in Atlantis”
― Richard Chizmar, The Long Way Home

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie. —IT”
― Richard Chizmar, The Long Way Home

“The most important things are the hardest to say… because words diminish them. —The Body”
― Richard Chizmar, The Long Way Home

“The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.” —Agatha Christie”
― Richard Chizmar, The Long Way Home