Stephen King

And suddenly it didn't seem to matter any more, nothing would matter if she could turn over, turn over and see the stars, turn over and look once and die.

Terrible thing to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time.

I'd been raised by my parents to believe barfing your feelings on other people was the height of impoliteness.

They were trying to run, trying to hide. But the rock would not hide them; the dead tree gave no shelter.

It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s hard to let go. Maybe especially then.

The last good time always comes, and when you see the darkness creeping toward you, you hold on to what was bright and good. You hold on for dear life.

In the years since, I've discovered there's a lot to be said for boredom.

Our memories have voices, too. Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark.

When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.

Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha? She had shaken her head slowly. Men and women who can't get over their past . . . That's what ghosts are.

Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions.

This is how a man looks when he's deciding that the risk of death is better than the risk of change.

Say your name over two hundred times and discover you are no one.

There had never been a shortage of fools in the world

But see that you get on. That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.

She looks like the type that might freak out. It's something in the eyes, Frannie. It says if you shoot my sacred cows, I'll shoot yours.

Things come in three major degrees in the human experience, I think. There's good, bad, and terrible. And as you go down into progressive darkness towards terrible, it gets harder and harder to make subdivisions.

How many have to die before we will give up these dangerous toys?

Every liberal in the country must watch Fox News for one year, and every conservative in the country must watch MSNBC for one year. (Middle-of-the-roaders could stick with CSI)

Superhero movies and comic books teach a lesson that runs directly counter to the culture-of-violence idea: guns are for bad guys too cowardly to fight like men.

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