He fell silent. For several moments they all did, and the quiet had the feel of a deliberate thing. Then Eddie said, "All right, we're back together again. What the hell do we do next?


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The soil of a man’s heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it.
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Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.
STEPHEN KING
God always punishes us for what we can't imagine.
STEPHEN KING
I realized the shells were talking in a voice I recognized. I should have; it was my own. Had I alwa...
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Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.
STEPHEN KING
Everything's a lot tougher when it's for real. That's when you choke. When it's for real.
STEPHEN KING
Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, s...
STEPHEN KING
Come on back and we’ll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children,...
STEPHEN KING
Your hair is winter fire
January embers
My heart burns there, too.
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It took me twenty years of living with my father to accept the idea that being good could be good en...
STEPHEN KING
When all else fails, give up and go to the library.
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Party lights hang over the street, yellow and red and green. Sadie stumbles over someone’s chair, ...
STEPHEN KING
Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather?"

He stared at me, baffle...
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Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic...
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I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost alw...
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Without his even being aware that it was happening, Paul's face rearranged itself into the expressio...
STEPHEN KING
I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that s...
STEPHEN KING
There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the c...
STEPHEN KING
Life is like Friday on a soap opera. It gives you the illusion that everything is going to wrap up, ...
STEPHEN KING
Love leaves scars.
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When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the tim...
STEPHEN KING
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
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Sometimes [...] real love is silent as well as blind.
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He killed them with their love
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Home is where they want you to stay longer.
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For God’s sake, Larry, grow up. Develop a little self-righteousness. A lot of that is an ugly thin...
STEPHEN KING
He was a poet who sometimes taught Free University classes or travelled in the western states of Uta...
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She's the Queen Bitch of Castle Hell. If you mess with her, she'll eat you alive.
STEPHEN KING
When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invaria...
STEPHEN KING
Get busy living or get busy dying.
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Good books are for consideration after, too.
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And didn't they say that, although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought the beast back?
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Churchbells were calling the faithful to worship, and outside it was a beautiful day
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I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let h...
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