61 quotes found
“It all floats down here!”
“It was easier to be brave when you were someone else.”
“Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.”
“The sky of the color of ashes in the east and embers in the west.”
“Swear to me swear to me that if it isn't dead you'll all come back.”
“They were with him, and for that little while the darkness was kind.”
“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...”
“Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.”
“You laugh because what's fearful and unknown is also what's funny, you laugh the way a small child will sometimes laugh and cry at the same time when a capering circus clown approaches, knowing it ...”
“I think it was the first real pain I ever felt in my life...It wasn't what I thought it would be at all. It didn't put an end to me as a person. I think...it gave me a basis for comparison, finding...”
“Maybe, he thought, there arent any such things as good friends or bad friendsmaybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when youre hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe theyre ...”
“(...) if that's what has to be. no good friends. No bad riends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.”
“(...) if that's waht has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.”
“The most important things are the hardest things to say, because words diminish them...”
“Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!”
“I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams.”
“In nightmares we can think the worst. That's what they're for, I guess.”
“For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even crying . . . but alive. Safe. Then he pushed the t...”
“...there were those who might have suggested that reality is a highly untrustworthy concept, something perhaps no more solid than a piece of canvas stretched over an interlacing of cables like the ...”
“If there are ten thousand medieval peasants who create vampires by believing them real, there may be oneprobably a childwho will imagine the stake necessary to kill it. But a stake is only stupid w...”
“It was only later, replaying the scene in her mind again and again, that she began to believe it was the expression of a man who was methodically unplugging himself from reality, one cord at a time...”
“Some stuff has to be done even if there is a risk. That's the first important thing I ever found out I didn't find out from my mother”
“The exhilaration was hard to explain. It was a lonely feeling a somehow melancholy feeling. He was outside; he passed on the wings of the wind, and none of the people beyond the brightly lighted s...”
“Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be.”
“...she did remember on time when she got her period, sliding open the cupboard under the bathroom sink to get a sanitary napkin; she remembered looking at the box of Stayfree pads and thinking that...”
