Never Flinch Quotes

“unless and until it’s used, talent is just an illusion.”
― Stephen King, Never Flinch

“I want to close tonight by asking you to remember the words of John the Apostle. He said, ‘If any man loves the world, the love of God the Father is not in him.’ But theology as practiced by Christian fundamentalists is all about the world. Mixing religion with politics is dangerous. Not the road to Calvary but the one that leads to fascism.”
― Stephen King, Never Flinch

“Tolliver doesn’t look at her. He keeps his eyes on Tom. Izzy isn’t surprised; when she works with a male partner, male subjects usually discount her. Women do, too.”
― Stephen King, Never Flinch

“I think the religions of the world are responsible for a shitpot of trouble.”
― Stephen King, Never Flinch

“(Hotel pools and yeast infections go together, Holly thinks. Oough.)”
― Stephen King, Never Flinch

“extreme horror is, in it's own way, merciful - it doesn't let you look ahead to the end”
― Stephen King, Never Flinch

“Nobody goes to Iowa City. At least not of their own free will.”
― Stephen King, Never Flinch

“He turns the key and a chime bings, but nothing else happens. His car is dead. God is punishing him. He doesn’t believe in God, but God is punishing him nevertheless.”
― Stephen King, Never Flinch

“Two or three dozen attendees gather near the butt can by the entrance and light up, because freebasing nicotine is one of two addictions left to them, and after an hour in the basement they need that hit.”
― Stephen King, Never Flinch

“surprised”
― Stephen King, Never Flinch

“Almost always out of town”
― Stephen King, Never Flinch

“Yeah, probably. You know, Holly, I think the religions of the world are responsible for a shitpot of trouble.”
― Stephen King, Never Flinch

“Are you kidding?” Jerome sounds a little more awake now. “Nobody goes to Iowa City. At least not of their own free will.”
― Stephen King, Never Flinch

“Also because it’s her. Holly.” Jerome nods. “Got that right.” He smiles and holds a fist out over the table. “Always Holly.” John bumps knuckles with him and repeats it. “Always Holly.”
― Stephen King, Never Flinch

“He’s dangerous because he thinks he’s sane.” She pauses. “To belabor something else that’s obvious, he’s not.”
― Stephen King, Never Flinch

“Oh. Is that all.” Holly waves it away, and then says something so much a part of her that it seems neither ridiculously overmodest nor in the slightest extraordinary. “I don’t care about credit, I just like to find answers.”
― Stephen King, Never Flinch

“The bastards don’t get to win.”
― Stephen King, Never Flinch

“The really dangerous ones, the ones who are crazy and not crazy at the same time, they give me nightmares.”
― Stephen King, Never Flinch

“deeply religious people in every sect or faith can always find justification for what they want to do in one holy book or another. Deacon”
― Stephen King, Never Flinch

“It’s not courage she lacks, it’s the fundamental self-worth necessary to call someone out on their hurtful behavior.”
― Stephen King, Never Flinch

“this is just another human being. A fellow rider on the journey from cradle to coffin.”
― Stephen King, Never Flinch

“They also serve who only stand and wait.”
― Stephen King, Never Flinch

“Matthew, chapter 19, verse 12: For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother’s womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive”
― Stephen King, Never Flinch

“Straight Circle is, in fact, the Church of the Crashed and Burned.”
― Stephen King, Never Flinch

“A lady’s name should be in the newspaper only three times—birth, marriage, death.”
― Stephen King, Never Flinch

“Exodus 21:22” Holly says. She opens her iPad and reads. “ ‘If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.’ ”
― Stephen King, Never Flinch

“This isn’t the country I grew up in, it’s Funhouse America now.”
― Stephen King, Never Flinch

“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. Exodus 22, verse 18.”
― Stephen King, Never Flinch

“By the time Holly finishes, she’s on her second Diet Coke and knows she’ll have to use the women’s before she leaves. She refuses to call it the ladies’ just as she refuses to call her underwear panties. Little girls wear panties, but her little-girl days are long gone. Holly is totally down with Kate McKay on what Kate calls “the advertising-driven infantilism of women.”
― Stephen King, Never Flinch

“Most days I’m like a one-legged woman in an ass-kicking contest.”
― Stephen King, Never Flinch