The Body Quotes

“Am I weird?"

"Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird.”
― Stephen King, The Body

“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?”
― Stephen King, The Body

“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seem limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out.”
― Stephen King, The Body

“Love has teeth; they bite; the wounds never close. No word, no combination of words, can close those lovebites. It's the other way around, that's the joke.”
― Stephen King, The Body

“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are things you get ashamed of, because words make them smaller. When they were in your head they were limitless; but when they come out they seem to be no bigger than normal things. But that's not all. The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried; they are clues that could guide your enemies to a prize they would love to steal. It's hard and painful for you to talk about these things ... and then people just look at you strangely. They haven't understood what you've said at all, or why you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.”
― Stephen King, The Body

“Love isn't soft, like
those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never
close.”
― Stephen King, The Body

“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve.
Jesus, does anyone?”
― Stephen King, The Body

“You’re just a kid, Gordie—”

“Gee, thanks, Dad.”

“I wish to fuck I was your father!” he said angrily. “You wouldn’t go around talking about takin those stupid shop courses if I was! It’s like God gave you something, all those stories you can make up, and He said: This is what we got for you, kid. Try not to lose it. But kids lose everything unless somebody looks out for them and if your folks are too fucked up to do it then maybe I ought to.”
― Stephen King, The Body

“The only two useful art forms are religion and stories.”
― Stephen King, The Body: Fall from Innocence

“Speech destroys the functions of love, I think…If you speak to tell a deer you mean it no harm, it glides away with a single flip of its tail. The word is the harm. Love isn't what these…poets...want you to think it is.”
― Stephen King, The Body

“The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life”
― Stephen King, The Body

“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem limitless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out”
― Stephen King, The Body

“But maybe I’ll try to work myself up. I don’t know if I could do it, but I might try. Because I want to get out of Castle Rock and go to college and never see my old man or any of my brothers again. I want to go someplace where nobody knows me and I don’t have any black marks against me before I start. But I don’t know if I can do it.”

“Why not?”

“People. People drag you down.”

“Who?” I asked, thinking he must mean the teachers, or adult monsters like Miss Simons, who had wanted a new skirt, or maybe his brother Eyeball who hung around with Ace and Billy and Charlie and the rest, or maybe his own mom and dad. But he said:
“Your friends drag you down, Gordie. Don’t you know that?” He pointed at Vern and Teddy, who were standing and waiting for us to catch up. They were laughing about something; in fact, Vern was just about busting a gut.

“Your friends do. They’re like drowning guys that are holding onto your legs. You can’t save them. You can only drown with them.”
― Stephen King, The Body

“Love isn't soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.”
― Stephen King, The Body

“Love isn't soft, like those poets say.”
― Stephen King, The Body

“It was still bright daylight and the sky was a
hot, steely blue, but our shadows were
beginning to grow longer. I remember that,
when I was young, September days always
seemed to end much too soon and catch me by surprise. It was as if something inside my
heart expected it always to be June, with
daylight hanging softly in the sky until almost half past nine.”
― Stephen King, The Body

“He’d turn to the next page in his paper and say: Well, that’s nice, Gordon, go ask your mother what’s for dinner. And don’t try to tell me different. I’ve met him.” I didn’t try”
― Stephen King, The Body

“It is the work of a young man every bit as insecure as he was inexperienced. And yet it was the first story I ever wrote that felt like my story-the first one that really felt whole.”
― Stephen King, The Body

“Love isn’t what these asshole poets like McKuen want you to think it is. Love has teeth; they bite; the wounds never close.”
― Stephen King, The Body

“It seemed that crying was going to be my new career.”
― Stephen King, The Body

“But kids lose everything unless somebody looks out for them”
― Stephen King, The Body

“The act of writing itself is done in secret, like masturbation.”
― Stephen King, The Body

“Le cose più importanti sono le più difficili da dire, perché le parole le rimpiccioliscono.”
― Stephen King, The Body

“There’s plenty of get-along between them, but love ain’t in it.”
― Stephen King, The Body

“My wife, my kids, my friends—they all think that having an imagination like mine must be quite nice; aside from making all this dough, I can have a little mind-movie whenever things get dull. Mostly they’re right. But every now and then it turns around and bites the shit out of you with these long teeth, teeth that have been filed to points like the teeth of a cannibal. You see things you’d just as soon not see, things that keep you awake until first light. I saw one of those things now, saw it with absolute clarity and certainty.”
― Stephen King, The Body

“Er konnte gestorben sein, weil er zuvor Angst hatte weiterzuleben”
― Stephen King , The Body

“Jetzt wussten wir, dass Helden und Feiglinge den Tod hörten, wenn er sie ansprang.”
― Stephen King, The Body