Stephen King, It

Stephen King, It

"George, I’m sorry!” he cried through his tears. β€œI’m sorry, I’m sorry, please, I’m suh-suh-SORRY—” And then they were around him, his friends, and no one lit a match, and someone held him, he didn’t know who, Beverly maybe, or maybe Ben, or Richie. They were with him, and for that little while the darkness was kind."
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"George, I’m sorry!” he cried through his tears. β€œI’m sorry, I’m sorry, please, I’m suh-suh-SORRY—” And then they were around him, his friends, and no one lit a match, and someone held him, he didn’t know who, Beverly maybe, or maybe Ben, or Richie. They were with him, and for that little while the darkness was kind."
Stephen King, It
"(...) if that's what has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart."
Stephen King, It
"...she did remember on time when she got her period, sliding open the cupboard under the bathroom sink to get a sanitary napkin; she remembered looking at the box of Stayfree pads and thinking that the box looked almost smug, seemed almost to be saying: Hello, Patty! We are your children. We are the only children you will ever have, and we are hungry. Nurse us. Nurse us on blood."
Stephen King, It
"The exhilaration was hard to explain. It was a lonely feeling β€” a somehow melancholy feeling. He was outside; he passed on the wings of the wind, and none of the people beyond the brightly lighted squares of their windows saw him. They were inside, inside where there was light and warmth. They didn't know he had passed them; only he knew. It was a secret thing."
Stephen King, It
"It was only later, replaying the scene in her mind again and again, that she began to believe it was the expression of a man who was methodically unplugging himself from reality, one cord at a time. The face of a man who was heading out of the blue and into the black."
Stephen King, It
"If there are ten thousand medieval peasants who create vampires by believing them real, there may be one–probably a child–who will imagine the stake necessary to kill it. But a stake is only stupid wood; the mind is the mallet which drives it home."
Stephen King, It
"...there were those who might have suggested that reality is a highly untrustworthy concept, something perhaps no more solid than a piece of canvas stretched over an interlacing of cables like the strands of a spiderweb."
Stephen King, It
"For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even crying . . . but alive. Safe. Then he pushed the thought away. Its charm was deadly, its comfort fatal."
Stephen King, It
"I think it was the first real pain I ever felt in my life... It wasn't what I thought it would be at all. It didn't put an end to me as a person. I think...it gave me a basis for comparison, finding out you could still exist inside the pain, in SPITE of the pain."
Stephen King, It
"In nightmares we can think the worst. That's what they're for, I guess."
Stephen King, It
"I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams."
Stephen King, It
"The most important things are the hardest things to say, because words diminish them..."
Stephen King, It
"(...) if that's waht has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart."
Stephen King, It
"(...) if that's what has to be. no good friends. No bad riends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart."
Stephen King, It
"You laugh because what's fearful and unknown is also what's funny, you laugh the way a small child will sometimes laugh and cry at the same time when a capering circus clown approaches, knowing it is supposed to be funny... but it is also unknown, full of the unknown's eternal power."
Stephen King, It
"Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought."
Stephen King, It
"If someone had asked him, β€œBen, are you lonely? , ” he would have looked at that someone with real surprise. The question had never even occurred to him. He had no friends, but he had his books and his dreams..."
Stephen King, It
"If someone had asked him, β€œBen, are you lonely? , ” he would have looked at that someone with real surprise. The question had never even occurred to him. He had no friends, but he had his books and his dreams;"
Stephen King, It
"I think it was the first real pain I ever felt in my life, he would tell the others. It wasn't what I thought it would be at all. It didn't put an end to me as a person. I think... it gave me a basis for comparison, finding out you could still exist inside the pain, in spite of the pain."
Stephen King, It
"Some stuff has to be done even if there is a risk. That's the first important thing I ever found out I didn't find out from my mother"
Stephen King, It
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