1,366 quotes found
Author · American · 1947
American author (born 1947)
“Horror spawns horror”
“The past is obdurate.”
“Go with your bad self.”
“Time heals all wounds.”
“Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him, nor did she chal...”
“Fifty yards ahead of us, a doe had come out of the woods. She stepped delicately over one rusty GS&WM track and onto the railbed, where the weeds and goldenrod were so high they brushed against her...”
“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.”
“Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave us only for minutes, and on the most mundane of errands? No, not at all. Each ti...”
“love is what moves the world, I've always thought...it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down...bring them low...and m...”
“For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.”
“If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone”
“The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it's when the lights go out and something green and slimy splatters against your arm. The Horror:...”
“I tend to scare myself.”
“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
“It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that ...”
“Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.”
“If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered.”
“Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear”
“Before drifting away entirely, he found himself reflecting---not for the first time---on the peculiarity of adults. Thet took laxatives, liquor, or sleeping pills to drive away their terrors so tha...”
“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.”
“No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.”
“FEAR stands for face everything and recover Old AA saying”
“We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.”