Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars
"When teenagers aren’t turning like weathervanes in a high wind, they’re as stiff as Puritans."
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"When teenagers aren’t turning like weathervanes in a high wind, they’re as stiff as Puritans."
Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars
"Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt."
Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars
"Deep inside her (ih her harrowed soul) she felt a glowing ember of fury at the man responsible for this. Tha man who had put her in this position. She looked at the pistol lying beside the basin, and knew that if he were here, she would use it on him without a moment's hesitation. Knowing that made her feel confused about herself. It also made her feel a little stronger."
Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars
"He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it set in again."
Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars
"People who leave their drugs in a bathroom the guests use are just asking for trouble."
Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars
"If you're going into a very dark place, then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see, why in God's name would you dare the dark at all?"
Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars
"It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover."
Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars
"A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation."
Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars
"All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs. Take my hand, Constant Reader, and I'll be happy to lead you back into the sunshine. I'm happy to go there because I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of."
Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars
"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."
Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars
"If God rewards us on earth for good deeds—the Old Testament suggests it’s so, and the Puritans certainly believed it—then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones."
Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars
"Why does she have to be such a...such a..."Go on," I said. "The truth is never cussing, Son."Such a bitch!"
Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars
"Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is."
Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars
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