Quotes by Stephen King

“Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back.”

“To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex.”

“He held her and rocked her, believing, rightly or wrongly, that Ellie wept for the very intractability of death, its imperviousness to argument or to a little girls tears; that she wept over its cr...”

“Christ.No, not Christ. These leavings were made in propitiation of a much older God than the Christian one. People have called Him different things at different times, but Rachels sister gave Him a...”

“Lend me your wings, bird. I'll spread them and fly on the thermals.”

“... it would matter ... to the tens of thousands of young Americans ... who would ... be invited to put on uniforms, fly to the other side of the world, spread their nether cheeks, and sit down on ...”

“She was satisfied with the answer God had given Moses from the burning bush when Moses had seen fit to question. Who are you? Mose asks, and God comes back from that bush just as pert as you like: ...”

“And the shooting will happen so fast and be over so quick that you'll wonder what all the planning and palaver was for, when in the end it always comes down to the same five minutes' worth of blood...”

“Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters. Stephen King, The Shining”

“Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?”

“You grew up, became a man, had to adjust to taking less than you hoped for; you discovered the dream-machine had a big OUT OF ORDER sign on it.”

“One of his followers murmured agreement, but another quietly slipped away. Now there was Norton and four others. Maybe that wasn't so bad. Christ Himself could only find twelve.”

“The eyes were damned, the staring, glaring eyes of one who sees but does not see, eyes ever turned inward to the sterile hell of dreams beyond control, dreams unleashed, risen out of the stinking s...”

“Come on, Doctor... we got places to go.”

“He could not say goodbye to these three rooms as he could to a house he had loved: hotel rooms accepted departures emotionlessly.”

“Dreams, after all, are insubstantial things, like mist itself.”

“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.”

“Dreams are a simple psychological emetic, and people who have them are more blessed than cursed”

“And because Eddie knew that was only the truth, he said nothing.”