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“You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without friends or the need of them.”

Stephen King book The Gunslinger

Source: The Gunslinger

“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.”

Stephen King book Carrie

Source: Carrie

“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.”

Stephen King book Joyland

Source: Joyland

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

Stephen King book Misery

Source: Misery

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

Stephen King book The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

Source: The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

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

Stephen King book The Shining

Source: The Shining

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

Source: The Wind Through the Keyhole

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

Stephen King The Dark Tower

Source: The Dark Tower

“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.”

Source: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons

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

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

Source: The Drawing of the Three

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

Stephen King book 'Salem's Lot

Source: 'Salem's Lot

“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.”

Stephen King book Dolores Claiborne

Source: Dolores Claiborne

“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.”

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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

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

Stephen King book Doctor Sleep

Variant: FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.
Source: Doctor Sleep

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

Stephen King Insomnia

Source: Insomnia

“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?”

Stephen King The Dark Tower

Source: The Dark Tower

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

Stephen King book Different Seasons

Source: Different Seasons

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

Stephen King book 11/22/63

Source: 11/22/63