“FEAR stands for face everything and recover Old AA saying”

“FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.”

“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.”

“Feelings are invulnerable to rational thought.”

“No, honey. Maybe you can put the things from the Overlook away in lockboxes, but not memories. Never those. Theyre the real ghosts.”

“Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.”

“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...”

“Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.”

“I'll take a redrum with a rellik please.”

“The constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid of self, I had become embedded in the egoism I was supposed to transcend. Now I was beginning to ...”

“Silence is the mother of truth.”

“Silence is a powerful tool.”