The Colorado Kid Quotes

“Sometimes loving eyes don't see what they don't want to see.”
― Stephen King, The Colorado Kid

“Sooner or later, everything old is new again.”
― Stephen King, The Colorado Kid

“For a woman a man will do many things that he'd turn his back on in an instant when alone; things he'd back away from, nine times out of ten, even when drunk adn with a bunch of his friends egging him on.”
― Stephen King, The Colorado Kid

“Here I am, ninety years old and ready for the cooling board, using a brand new Macintosh computer, and there you sit, twenty-two and gorgeous, fresh as a new peach, yet scrawling on a yellow legal pad like an old maid in a Victorian romance.”
― Stephen King, The Colorado Kid

“Curiosity killed the cat, you know, but satisfaction brought him back snap-ass happy.”
― Stephen King, The Colorado Kid

“It was that kind of story. The kind that’s like a sneeze which threatens but never quite arrives.”
― Stephen King, The Colorado Kid

“Could she lay hope to rest or did she have to carry it yet awhile longer?”
― Stephen King, The Colorado Kid

“Well then, I'm going to tell you a secret almost every newspaper man and woman who's been at it awhile knows: in real life, the number of actual stories - those with beginnings, middles, and ends - are slim and none. But if you can give your readers just one unknown thing (two at the very outside) and then kick in what Dave Bowie there calls a musta-been, your reader will tell himself a story.”
― Stephen King, The Colorado Kid

“We poor humans are wired up to always think the worst is gonna happen because it so rarely does.”
― Stephen King, The Colorado Kid

“I like a woman who hasn’t decided the kitchen’s a place of slavery just because she works for a livin.” “I feel absolutely the same way about a man,”
― Stephen King, The Colorado Kid

“Forty seemed about right, and it occurred to me that it's too bad for a fella to die at forty, a real shame. It's a man's most anonymous age.”
― Stephen King, The Colorado Kid

“If everyone knows what there is to know, it stops a lot of tongues from a lot of useless wagging.”
― Stephen King, The Colorado Kid

“It’s possible that heaven’s a rodeo, too, but not likely,”
― Stephen King, The Colorado Kid

“Todos cayeron del árbol y se rompieron el brazo alguna vez, todos recuerdan lo travieso que fueron cuando eran niños, lo que no recuerdan, es a sus madres levantándose en medio de la noche para darles una aspirina”
― Stephen King, Colorado kid

“He coulda been here since last Labor Day, for all I know,”
― Stephen King, The Colorado Kid

“In the meantime, we’re in a kind of compulsory dodgeball game as we free-fall from Wherever to Ain’t Got A Clue.”
― Stephen King, The Colorado Kid

“You go back to that old business the way a kid who’s lost a tooth goes back to the hole with the tip of his tongue.”
― Stephen King, The Colorado Kid

“Now Steffi—I’d done okay through most of the autopsy, but right about then I started feeling decidedly chuck-upsy.”
― stephen king, The Colorado Kid

“Dave said, “Devane was there while the Medical Examiner,”
― Stephen King, The Colorado Kid

“When you eliminate the impossible, whatever is left—no matter how improbable— must be the answer.”
― Stephen King, The Colorado Kid

“You drool at one end of your life and dribble at t’other,”
― Stephen King, The Colorado Kid

“Feature stories are happy stories because they’re over.”
― Stephen King, The Colorado Kid

“How long do you think it takes a man to choke to death on a piece of meat and then be dead forever?”
― Stephen King, The Colorado Kid

“A minute can be an awful short space of time under some circumstances, but it can be an awful long one at a time like that.”
― Stephen King, The Colorado Kid

“Engraçado como as coisas acontecem às vezes. Faz a gente imaginar quantas vezes elas não acontecem.”
― Stephen King, The Colorado Kid

“It has never surprised me that God gave the world a little tilt at the same time He set it spinning; so much that goes on here mimics that tilt.”
― Stephen King, The Colorado Kid

“Then for maybe a minute the three of us just stood there, looking down on him like mourners. A minute can be an awful short space of time under some circumstances, but it can be an awful long one at a time like that.”
― Stephen King, The Colorado Kid

“I am convinced in my heart, Steffi, that we poor humans are wired up to always think the worst is gonna happen because it so rarely does. Then what’s only lousy seems okay—almost good, in fact— and we can cope just fine.”
― Stephen King, The Colorado Kid

“You know, Steff, there’s something perverse about this. Here am I, ninety years old and ready for the cooling board, using a brand new Macintosh computer, and there you sit, twenty-two and gorgeous, fresh as a new peach, yet scrawling on a yellow legal pad like an old maid in a Victorian romance.”
― Stephen King, The Colorado Kid

“Island living has a way of creeping into your blood, and once it gets there it’s like malaria. It doesn’t leave easily.”
― Stephen King, The Colorado Kid