Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars Quotes
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.
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.
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.
It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover.
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?
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.
Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.
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.
People who leave their drugs in a bathroom the guests use are just asking for trouble.
When teenagers aren’t turning like weathervanes in a high wind, they’re as stiff as Puritans.
