She did not know if her gift came from the lord of light or of darkness, and now, finally finding that she didn't care which, she wad overcome with almost indescribable relief, as if a huge weight, lo...
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.
Politics always change. Stories never do.
Before drifting away entirely, he found himself reflecting---not for the first time---on the peculiarity of adults. Thet took laxatives, liquor, or sleeping pills to drive away their terrors so that s...
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.
Remember that hope is a good thing, Red, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
Sometimes you have to be a high riding bitch to survive, sometimes, being a bitch is all a woman has to hang on to.
The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.
That's clear about the end of my other life, how I kept saying 'I can do this' even when I knew I couldn't, even when I knew I was fucked, I was dead ass fucked in the pouring rain.
A change is as good as a rest.
Beyond the reach of human rage A drop of hell, a touch of strange ...
I don't care so much about what you can stand or what you can manage as I do about what you like and want to have. Those are the kinds of things I want to give you, because I'm crazy about you.
We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late.
If you were seeing a lot of horseshit, there had to be a pony in the vicinity.
The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.
That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons, even death may die. —
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