Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it.
Stephen KingRead
Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The speaker struggles with intense feelings of hate towards someone while recognizing the deep emotional conflict that prevents them from acting on those feelings.
This quote illustrates the inner turmoil of the speaker who grapples with conflicting emotions. While they have developed a strong hatred towards someone, the acknowledgment of wishing that person dead reveals an underlying connection or past bond that creates a barrier against taking any harmful action. It highlights the complexity of human emotions and the struggle between hate and the remnants of love or connection.
Themes
HateRelationshipsEmotionsConflictLove
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be used in a psychology class to discuss the complexities of human emotions.
More from Stephen King
All quotes →Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.
Stephen KingRead
Hairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never.
Stephen KingRead
Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
Stephen KingRead
That's the day's business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn't matter if you pass the time of day with someone or not; in the end, you're alone. He seemed to have put in as many miles in his brain as he had with his feet. The thoughts kept coming and there was no way to deny them.
Stephen KingRead
Late last night and the night before, tommyknockers, tommyknockers knocking on my door. I wanna go out, don't know if I can 'cuz I'm so afraid of the tommyknocker man.
Stephen KingRead
Similar quotes
If you want to have a more pleasant, cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, empathic, consistent, loving parent. If you want to have more freedom, more latitude in your job, be a more responsible, a more helpful, a more contributing employee.
Stephen CoveyRead
I was always aware of what the language I was using meant in terms of my bond with my parents - how it defined the lines of affection between us. When I spoke English, I felt I wasn't completely their child any more but the child of another language.
Jhumpa LahiriRead
No matter how much you know a human being, you don't know him enough.
Isaac Bashevis SingerRead
Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
Abraham MaslowRead
In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.
Eleanor RooseveltRead
Some 70% to 80% of all who join the military will return to the civilian workforce. They'll return to communities, and one of the things I've worried about is the increasing disconnect between the American people and our men and women in uniform. We come from fewer and fewer places. We're less than 1% of the population.
Michael MullenRead