Stephen King, Hearts In Atlantis Quotes

Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.

Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.

Time heals all wounds.

Good books are for consideration after, too.

Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.

Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity

A change is as good as a rest.

What you don’t know, you can’t tell. Or made to tell.

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

Was there even such a thing as normall? People had terrible things behing their faces sometimes. He knew that now.

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

At the same moment a cold chill traced a finger down the middle of my back. Sometimes things come back to you, that's all. Sometimes they come back.

Adulthood is accretive by nature, a thing which arrives in ragged stages and uneven overlaps.