12 quotes found
“FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.”
“Feelings are invulnerable to rational thought.”
“FEAR stands for face everything and recover Old AA saying”
“She felt like Captain Ahab, for the first time sighting his great white whale.”
“We'll eat your steam and lap up your blood. But first, we'll drink your screams”
“Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.”
“I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.”
“There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.”
“No, honey. Maybe you can put the things from the Overlook away in lockboxes, but not memories. Never those. Theyre the real ghosts.”
“At the end of almost every AA meeting, someone read the Promises. One of these was 'We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it'. Dan thought he would always regret the past, but he...”
“The silence wasn't uncomfortable or hostile but exhausted--the quiet of people who have a great deal to think about but not a hell of a lot to say.”
“There came a time when you realised that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.”
