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“On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That it was my job? My job?”

Stephen King book The Green Mile

Source: The Green Mile

“He killed them with their love”

Stephen King book The Green Mile

Source: The Green Mile

“You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you.”

“We are going to fight. We are going to be hurt. And in the end, we will stand.”

Stephen King book The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three

Source: The Drawing of the Three

“If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered.”

“Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.”

Stephen King book Under the Dome

Source: Under the Dome

“Words have weight.”

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear”

Stephen King book The Stand

Source: The Stand

“The soil of a man’s heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it.”

Stephen King book Pet Sematary

Jud speaking to Louis, after the burying the cat
Source: Pet Sematary (1983)
Context: They are secret things. Women are supposed to be the ones good at keeping secrets, and I guess they do keep a few, but any woman who knows anything at all would tell you she's never really seen into any man's heart. The soil of a man's heart is stonier, Louis - like the soil up there in the old Micmac burying ground. Bedrock's close. A man grows what he can... and he tends it.

“The past is obdurate.”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

Source: 11/22/63

“The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

Source: 11/22/63

“If we don't have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.”

Stephen King book The Stand

Source: The Stand

“They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?”

Stephen King book The Long Walk

Source: The Long Walk

“Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.”

Stephen King book Full Dark, No Stars

Source: Full Dark, No Stars

“The mystery of the universe is not time but size.”

Stephen King book The Gunslinger

Variant: The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.
Source: The Gunslinger

“I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

Source: 11/22/63

“Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.”

Stephen King book Carrie

Source: Carrie

“Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map…. A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.”

Stephen King book Hearts in Atlantis

Source: Hearts in Atlantis

“Death, but not for you, gunslinger. Never for you. You darkle. You tinct. May I be brutally frank? You go on.”

Stephen King The Dark Tower

Source: The Dark Tower

“Sometimes, he thought, real love is silent as well as blind.”

Stephen King book The Stand

Variant: Sometimes [... ] real love is silent as well as blind.
Source: The Stand