Stephen King: Likeness (page 3)

“But still, sometimes, in the heart of winter when the light outside seemed yellow- sleepy, like a cat curled up on a sofa…”

“When you put on a clown suit and a rubber nose, nobody has any idea what you look like inside.”

“Laughter, Susannah would later reflect, is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because theare funny but because your ownis funny.”

“Like some dogs: kick them once and they never trust you again, no matter how nice you are to them.”

“Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.”

“No one likes to see a government folder with his name on it.”

“There's nothing like stories on a windy night when folks have found a warm place in a cold world.”

“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.”

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

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

“Working with him was sort of like trying to defuse a bomb with somebody standing behind you and every now and then clashing a pair of cymbals together. In a word, upsetting.”

“The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king.”

“Ka was like a wheel, its one purpose to turn, and in the end it always came back to the place where it had started.”

“Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and does it with a smile. The man who does the job you couldn't bring yourself to do.”

“Superstition, like true love, needs time to grow and reflect upon itself.”

“Dead was the gift that kept on giving. Dead, like
diamonds, was forever.”

“Things do happen for a reason, but do we like the reason? Rarely.”

“Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature.”

“… it was more like bleeding than crying.”