Stephen King: Trending quotes (page 23)

“They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet. And she knew with sudden hatefulness that there was one couple like them in every white suburban high school in America.”

“My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems.”

“I am in trouble here. This woman is not right.”

“When a long book succeeds, the writer and reader are not just having an affair; they are married.”

“Tough old world, baby. If you're not bolted together tightly, you're gonna shake, rattle, and roll before you turn thirty.”

“Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow.”

“Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please.”

“They say The Pacific has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.”

“There had never been a shortage of fools in the world”

“Crying was like pissing everything out on the ground.”

“The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.”

“I'm not making an enemy; I'm keepin' one.”

“It's best to have your tools with you. If you don't, you're apt to find something you didn't expect and get discouraged.”

“sometimes an accident can be an unhappy womans best friend”

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

“Sooner or later everything you thought you'd left behind comes around again. For good or ill, it comes around again.”

“Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file from smallest to tallest? What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?”

“no one dies happy, you can only die well”

“Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act.”