Stephen King: Trending quotes

“Late last night and the night before, tommyknockers, tommyknockers knocking on my door. I wanna go out, don't know if I can 'cuz I'm so afraid of the tommyknocker man.”

“Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.”

“You know, schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It’s accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.”

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”

“Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.”

“Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.”

“It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”

“Sometimes, Delores, you have to be a high riding bitch in order to survive, because being a bitch is all a woman has to hold on to..”

“The tears were flowing again, but he smiled. "That's how it is every day", he said, "all over the world."”

“The road and the tale have both been long, would you not say so? The trip has been long and the cost has been high… but no great thing was ever attained easily. A long tale, like a tall Tower, must be built a stone at a time.”

“Life is a wheel, and it always comes back around to where it started.”

“But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. […] True sorrow is as rare as true love.”

“May you find your Tower, Roland, and breach it, and may you climb to the top!”

“The boat dipped and swayed and sometimes took on water, but it did not sink; the two brothers had waterproofed it well. I do not know where it finally fetched up, if it ever did; perhaps it reached the sea and sails there forever like a magic boat in a fairytale. All I know is that it was still afloat and still running on the breast of the flood when it passed the incorporated town limits of Derry, Maine, and there it passes out of this tale forever.”

“I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.”

“A life without love is like a tree without fruit.”

“Gordie: Do you think I'm weird?
Chris: Definitely.
Gordie: No man, seriously. Am I weird?
Chris: Yeah, but so what? Everybody's weird”

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”