Cujo Quotes

“The monster nevers dies.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“It would perhaps not be amiss to point out that he had always tried to be a good dog. He had tried to do all the things his MAN and his WOMAN, and most of all his BOY, had asked or expected of him. He would have died for them, if that had been required. He had never wanted to kill anybody. He had been struck by something, possibly destiny, or fate, or only a degenerative nerve disease called rabies. Free will was not a factor.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“We'll just have to get along. That's what people do, you know? They just get along. And try to help each other.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heared clearly in the dreams of later years.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“...it was amazing, wasn't it, how bad you could hurt when there was nothing physically wrong.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“All the logic in the world could not blunt the pain. Logic could not blunt her terrible sense of personal failure. Only time would do those things, and time would do an imperfect job.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“...it was more like bleeding than crying.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“The world was full of monsters, and they were all allowed to bite the innocent and the unwary”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“There is no bad time for good news.”
― stephen king, Cujo

“The two of them had discovered it was all right to open the closets...as long as you didn't poke too far back in them. Because things might still be lurking there, ready to bite.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“If loyalty was toilet paper... we'd be hard-pressed to wipe our asses, old buddy.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“El monstruo nunca muere.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“Maybe he was as mad as he said he was, but she could see only a species of miserable fright. Suddenly, like the thud of a boxing glove on her mouth, she saw how close to the edge of everything he was. The agency was tottering, that was bad enough, and now, on top of that, like a grisly dessert following a putrid main course, his marriage was tottering too. She felt a rush of warmth for him, for this man she had sometimes hated and had, for the last three hours at least, feared. A kind of epiphany filled her. Most of all, she hoped he would always think he had been as mad as hell, and not . . . not the way his face said he felt.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“surely they had passed the worst. All the luck had been against them, but sooner or later even the worst luck changes.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“Charity had discovered there were things you didn't want to tell. Shame wasn't the reason. Sometimes it was just better-kinder- to keep up a front”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“He was a Saint Bernard in his prime, five years old, nearly two hundred pounds in weight, and now, on the morning of June 16, 1980, he was pre-rabid.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“All the luck had been against them, but sooner or later even the worst luck changes”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“He tilted back in the decaying lawn chair, almost went over on his back, and used up some more of his screwdriver. The screwdriver was in a glass he had gotten free from a McDonald's restaurant. There was some sort of purple animal on the glass. Something called a Grimace. Gary ate a lot of his meals at the Castle Rock McDonald's, where you could still get a cheap hamburger. Hamburgers were good. But as for the Grimace... and Mayor McCheese... and Monsieur Ronald Fucking McDonald... Gary Pervier didn't give a shit for any of them.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“It was a love that had nothing to do with Joe Camber's day-to-day behavior toward him or his mother; it was a brute, biological thing that he would never be free of, a phenomenon with many illusory referents of the sort which haunt for a lifetime: the smell of cigarette smoke, the look of a double-edged razor reflected in a mirror, pants hung over a chair, certain curse words.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“A woman doesn't necessarily mind being looked at. It's being mentally undressed that makes you nervous.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“Abrakadabra, und alles verwandelt sich in einen großen Haufen Scheiße.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“It was all a lie. The world was full of monsters, and they were all allowed to bite the innocent and the unwary.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“When there was nothing left but survival, when you were right down to the strings and nap and ticking of yourself, you survived or you died and that seemed perfectly all right.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“Nope, nothing wrong here.” —”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“That money did not come by accident; that it almost always resulted from some sustained act of will, and that will was the core of character.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“He had suspected something, yes. But suspecting was not like knowing; he knew that now, if nothing else. He could write an essay on the difference between suspecting and knowing. What made it doubly cruel was the fact that he had really begun to believe that the suspicions were groundless. And even if they weren’t, what you didn’t know couldn’t hurt you. Wasn’t that right? If a man is crossing a darkened room with a deep, open hole in the middle of it, and if he passes within inches of it, he doesn’t need to know he almost fell in. There is no need for fear. Not if the lights are off.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“I didn’t want to be on the Library Committee and I didn’t want to be on the Hospital Committee and run the bake sales or be in charge of getting the starter change or making sure that not everybody is making the same Hamburger Helper casserole for Saturday-night supper. I didn’t want to see those same depressing faces over and over again and listen to the same gossipy stories about who is doing what in this town. I didn’t want to sharpen my claws on anyone else’s reputation. I didn’t want to sell Tupperware and I didn’t want to sell Amway and I didn’t want to give Stanley parties and I don’t need Weight Watchers...And the only place to run from the future is into the past.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“Logic could not blunt her terrible sense of personal failure. Only time could do those things, and time would do an imperfect job.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“What drove women crazy, she thought suddenly, wasn’t really sexism at all, maybe. It was this mad, masculine quest for efficiency.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“there comes a time when children stand in judgment and their parents—mother as well as father—must stand in the dock.”
― Stephen King, Cujo