Stephen King Quotes - Page 10

A woman who would steal your love when your love was really all you had to give was not much of a woman.

I tend to scare myself.

If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered.

Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

FEAR stands for face everything and recover – Old AA saying

Alone.

Yes,that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.

...fear is actually an acronym for Fuck Everything And Run.

The fears of children were simpler and usually more powerful. The fears of children could often be summoned up in a single face... and if bait were needed, why, what child did not love a clown?

And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside.

Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.

Obliqueness is the curse of the reading class.

If you drop your Kindle in the toilet, you're done.

That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments.

the late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood ...

Do you see this heart-stopping beauty? Look closely, because in a moment your heart will stop.

Your hair is winter fire,
January embers.
My heart burns there, too.
-Stephen King, IT

To the loving eye, even smallpox scars are beautiful.

When I say truth, I mean beauty.

Your man Jesus seems to me a bit of a son of a bitch when it comes to women,´Roland said. ´Was He ever married?´
The corners of Callahan's mouth quirked. ´No´ he said, ´but His girlfriend was a whore.´
´Well,´ Roland said, ´that's a start.´