“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.”

“Ahab and aguish lay stretched together in one hammock.”

“one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duelist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six-inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whal...”

“She felt like Captain Ahab, for the first time sighting his great white whale.”