Quotes by Stephen King

Tony, Tony,come around, somethings lost that cant be found.

Not today. Instead of Wendy, I found myself thinking of Annie Ross and realizing I’d developed a small but powerful crush on her. The fact that nothing could come of it—she had to be ten years older than me, maybe twelve—only seemed to make things worse. Or maybe I mean better, because unrequited love does have its attractions for young men.

Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather?He stared at me, baffled. Why the fuck would you do that?

Party lights hang over the street, yellow and red and green. Sadie stumbles over someone’s chair, but I’m ready for this and I catch her easily by the arm.“Sorry, clumsy,” she says.“You always were, Sadie. One of your more endearing traits.”Before she can ask about that I slip my arm around her waist. She slips hers around mine, still looking up at me. The lights skate across her cheeks and shine in her eyes. We clasp hands, fingers folding together naturally, and for me the years fall away like a coat that’s too heavy and too tight. In that moment, I hope on thing above all others: that she was not too busy to find at least one good man …She speaks in a voice almost too low to be heard over the music. But I hear her – I always did. “Who are you, George?”“Someone you knew in another life, honey.

The past is obdurate.

Can the future hsitory of the world be so fragile that it will not allow two high school teachers to meet and fall in love? To marry, to dance to Beatles tunes like I Want to Hold Your Hand, and live unremarkable lives?

History doesnt repeat itself, but it harmonizes, and what it usually makes is the devils music.

A man who lies about beer makes enemies

College was for people who didn’t know they were smart.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

Faith is, by its very definition, belief without proof.

And this wasn’t lying, not really. It was leaving out.

There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them . . . and then there were people who lied because they were waiting for it to be time to tell the truth.

In the years since, Ive discovered theres a lot to be said for boredom.

Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think its like a law of nature.

[Prison Break is] one of the craziest, most unpredictable roller-coaster rides on TV today.

The inmates made jokes about the chair, the way people always make jokes about things that frighten them but cant be gotten away from.

The wide corridor up the centre of E Block was floored with linoleum the colour of tired old limes, and so what was the Last Mile at other prisons was called the Green Mile at Cold Mountain.

A left turn meant life - if you called what went on in the sunbaked exercise yard life, and many did; many lived it for years, with no apparent ill effects.

When you spend your life taking care of mudmen, you cant help getting a little dirty yourself.