61 quotes found
“My heart's with you, Bill, no matter how it turns out. My heart is with all of them, and I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams.”
“If someone had asked him, Ben, are you lonely? , he would have looked at that someone with real surprise. The question had never even occurred to him. He had no friends, but he had his books and h...”
“(...) if that's what 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.”
“Driving a desk was sometimes lonely, but Eddie had been in the drivers'-seat himself more than once, his aspirator riding there with him on the dashboard, its trigger reflected ghostly in the winds...”
“George, Im sorry! he cried through his tears. Im sorry, Im sorry, please, Im suh-suh-SORRY And then they were around him, his friends, and no one lit a match, and someone held him, he didnt know wh...”
“He thought that fat boys were probably only allowed to love pretty girls inside. If he told anyone how he felt (not that he had anyone to tell), that person would probably laugh until he had a hear...”
“You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.”
“The energy you drew on so extravagantly when you were a kid, the energy you thought would never exhaust itself - that slipped away somewhere between eighteen and twenty-four, to be replaced by some...”
“Nothing lasts forever,' Richie repeated. He looked up at Bill, and Bill saw tears cut slowly through the dirt on Richie's cheeks.'Except maybe for love,' Ben said.'And desire,' Beverly said.”
“What are you?''I'm the Turtle, son. I made the universe, but please don't blame me for it; I had a bellyache.”
“Looking up at that starry sky gave him the creeps: it was too big, too black. It was all too possible to imagine it turning blood-red, all too possible to imagine a Face forming in lines of fire.”
“Each year the world Rich lived in felt more and more like a huge electronic haunted house in which digital ghosts and frightened human beings lived in uneasy coexistence.”
“It's in The Lord of the Rings, I think, where one of the characters says that "way leads on to way"; that you could start at a path leading nowhere more fantastic than from your own front steps to ...”
“I started after him...and the clown looked back. I saw Its eyes, and all at once I understood who It was.""Who was it, Don?" Harold Gardner asked softly."It was Derry," Don Hagarty said. "It was th...”
“Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.”
“Swear to me swear to me that if it isn't dead you'll all come back.”
“Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up”
“stop now before i kill youa word to the wise from your friendPENNYWISE ”
“I discovered news of old horrors in old books; read intelligence of old atrocities in old periodicals; always in the back of my mind, every day a bit louder, I heard the seashell drone of some grow...”
“Those aren't doors, and they're not opening. Those are crypts, Richie. They're cracking open and the vampires you thought were dead are all flying out again.”
