Quotes from book

Under the Dome

“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.”

“Never give a good politician time to pray.”

“When the dawn was still long hours away, bad thoughts took on flesh and began to walk. In the middle of the night thoughts became zombies.”

“God turned out to be a bunch of bad little kids playing interstellar Xbox. Isn't that funny?”

“Two can keep a secret if one of them is dead”

“An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it.”

“Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.”

“They walked back into the world together, wearing the gift that had been given them: just life. Pity was not love, Barbie reflected… but if you were a child, giving clothes to someone who was naked had to be a step in the right direction.”

“If you were seeing a lot of horseshit, there had to be a pony in the vicinity.”

“Give a man or woman back his self-respect, and in most cases-not all, but most-you also give back that person's ability to think with at least some clarity.”

“She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.”

“He told himself that everything was fine — he only had to look at the sleeping dog on the floor if he doubted — but in the middle of the night it was hard to be an optimist. When the dawn was still long hours away, bad thoughts took on flesh and began to walk. In the middle of the night thoughts became zombies.”