Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Love leaves scars.
Just go on dancing with me like this forever and I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoe on the stars and hang upside down from the moon.
Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.
Laughter, Susannah would later reflect, is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because the are funny but because your own is fu...
I love you too much to lie to you, Lisey. I love you with all that passes for my heart. I suspect that kind of all-out love becomes a burden to a woman in time, but it's the only kind I have to give....
I realized the shells were talking in a voice I recognized. I should have; it was my own. Had I always known that? I suppose I had. On some level, unless we're mad, I think most of us know the various...
Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.
Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past yo...
Because things can get better, and if you give them a chance, they usually do.
Swear to me swear to me that if it isn't dead you'll all come back.
Politics always change. Stories never do.
Sometimes the embers are better than the campfire.
Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.
Gordie: Do you think I'm weird?Chris: Definitely.Gordie: No man, seriously. Am I weird?Chris: Yeah, but so what? Everybody's weird
Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it.
I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.
As Lily Cavenaugh says in The Talisman (and it was Peter Straub's line, not mine), You can never be too thin or too rich. And if you don't believe it, you were never really fat or really poor.
Sometimes you have to be a high riding bitch to survive, sometimes, being a bitch is all a woman has to hang on to.
Remember that hope is a good thing, Red, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
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