Quotes by Stephen King

The town knew about darkness. It knew about the darkness that comes on the land when rotation hides the land from the sun, and about the darkness of the human soul. The town is an accumulation of three parts which, in sum, are greater than the sections. The town is the people who live there, the buildings which they have erected to den or do business in, and it is the land.

Moonlight flooded in the windows and silvered the room, turning it into a lagoon of dreams

Flakes of snow swirled and danced across the porch. The Overlook faced it as it had for nearly three-quarters of a century, its darkened windows now bearded with snow, indifferent to the fact it was now cut off from the world… Inside its shell the three of them went about their early evening routine, like microbes trapped in the intestine of a monster.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, Why god? Why me? and the thundering voice of God answered, Theres just something about you that pisses me off.

There’s an idea that hell is other people. My idea is that it might be repetition.

Pack up all my care and woe, blackbird, bye-bye

I can see your dirtypillows.

Oh Christ, he understood more than he wanted to right now. Give me a chance, Louis thought, and I’llunderstand myself right into the nearest mental asylum.

I had been hobbled, perhaps even crippled by a pervasive internet society I had come to depend on and take for granted... hit enter and let Google, that twenty-first century Big Brother, take care of the rest.In the Derry of 1958, the most up-to-date computers were the size of small housing developments, and the local paper was no help. What did that leave? I remembered a sociology prof I’d had in college - a sarcastic old bastard - who used to say, When all else fails, give up and go to the library.

Youve got to go to Boston, and youve got to go there NOW!!

...it was another year or two before I discovered that drat and draft were different words. During that same period I remember believing that details were dentals and that a bitch was an extremely tall woman. A son of a bitch was apt to be a basketball player. When youre six, most of your Bingo balls are still floating around in the draw-tank (27-8).

I dont want Church to be like all those dead pets! she burst out, suddenly tearful and furious. I dont want Church to ever be dead! Hes my cat! Hes not Gods cat! Let God have all the damn old cats He wants, and kill them all! Church is mine!

My hearts with you, Bill, no matter how it turns out. My heart is with all of them, and I think that, even if we forget each other, well remember in our dreams.

What you don’t know, you can’t tell. Or made to tell.

You can lead a whore to culture, but you cant make her think.

Working with him was sort of like trying to defuse a bomb with somebody standing behind you and every now and then clashing a pair of cymbals together. In a word, upsetting.

Some werewolves are hairy on the inside.

Good! he wanted to cry out to her. Good! Because you only had to see it! I had to wear it!

God, you had enough time to have been through it three times. Youve been through my stuff. I bet you over and let one of you stick the worlds longest finger up my ass. If a prostate check is an exam, that was a motherfucking safari. I was scared to look down. I thought Id see that guys finger nail sticking out of my cock.

He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldnt.