Quotes from book

Doctor Sleep

“There came a time when you realised that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.”

“Death was no less a miracle than birth.”

“Want a Coke?” Abra asked. “Sugar solves lots of problems, that’s what I think.”

“The silence wasn't uncomfortable or hostile but exhausted--the quiet of people who have a great deal to think about but not a hell of a lot to say.”

“Of course when you were running with the bottom dogs, what you mostly saw were paws, claws, and assholes.”

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

“The world was the Overlook Hotel, where the party never ended. Where the dead were alive forever.”

“I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.”

“You’d be surprised what a person can live with,” Dan said.”

“No great thing is created suddenly.”

“Sometimes you had to know. Sometimes you had to.”

“She thought that things could not get worse . . . but they always can, and often do.”

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