On a couple of occasions I’ve shocked myself. Pet Sematery was appalling when it first came out on to the page.
The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them – words shrink things that seemed limitless... ” – Opening paragraph, The Body.
The stupidity of one’s own colleagues makes life simpler.
Willpower and dedication are good words’ Roland remarked ‘There’s a bad one, though, that means the same thing. That one is obsession.
I couldn’t help it, boss, he said. I tried to take it back but it was too late.
Ridiculous man in a pair of ridiculous sneakers. Such a ridiculous man hardly deserved to live.
You doom yourselves, Susannah. You seem positively bent on it, and the root is always the same: your faith fails you, and you replace it with rational thought. But there is no love in thought, nothing that lasts in deduction, only death in rationalism.
Lisbon Taxi,′ a woman said, ’where the mileage is always smileage. How may we help you today?
The sun had bled away every smell and left nothing.
The wind moaned, a witch with cancer in her belly.
A veces los perros perdidos vuelven a casa.
I shrugged. ‘Any fool can peel the Apple,’ I said. ‘It takes a real man to eat the core.
Tanto vale bersi l’oceano con un cucchiaino piuttosto che discutere con un innamorato.
The two of them walked toward the road and the stone marker. Behind them, other cars were pulling out. A woman began screaming abruptly. Unconsciously, Garraty and McVries drew closer together. Neither of them looked back. Ahead of them was the road, wide and black.
Semakin tipis bukunya, semakin sedikit omong kosongnya” -.
Life sucks, then you die.
It’s easy to become careless when making rough comparisons, but the alternative is a prissy attention to detail that takes all the fun out of writing.
Indeed he did, and we never cease wanting what we want, whether it’s good for us or not. Wouldn’t you say so, Mr. Streeter?
You’ve heard a thousand pop and country songs that prove the point; some fool got his heart broke. Yet that first broken heart is always the most painful, the slowest to mend, and leaves the most visible scar. What’s so sweet about that?
You’ll float down here with your friends, Beverly, we all float down here, tell Bill that Georgie says hello, tell Bill that Georgie misses him but he’ll see him soon, tell him Georgie will be in the closet some night with a piece of piano wire to stick in his eye, tell him –.