Stephen King: Thing (page 2)

“Come on back and we’ll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure in belief and thus afraid of the dark.”

“Some things were better lost than found.”

“If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead or wishing you were.”

“The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.”

“If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be.”

“Sometimes the things presented to us as choices aren't choices at all.”

“The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear?"
Yes."
My Imagination."
I thought you were going to say "Fear, itself."
Then you have a small imagination."
Roland and Eddie”

“Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”

“Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.”

“As infants, our first victory comes in grasping some bit of the world, usually our mother's fingers. Later we discover that the world, and the things of the world, are grasping us, and have been all along.”

“I know that the thing under my bed doesn't exist. But I also know that if I keep my feet under the blanket, it won't grab my ankle”

“There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.”

“Small children are great accepters. They don’t understand shame, or the need to hide things.”

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

“If our faith is strong, we’ll go to heaven, and we’ll understand the whole thing when we get there. As if life were a joke, and heaven the place where the cosmic punchline is finally explained to us.”

“There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal "Once upon a time.”

“Because things can get better, and if you give them a chance, they usually do.”

“There's a lot of things people think they can't do and then discover they can when they find themselves tight-wired.”

“No great thing is created suddenly.”