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 –.
Maybe, in the end it’s the voice that tells the stories more than the stories themselves that matters.
The most important things are the hardest to say because words diminish them.
It was not just Danny the Overlook was working on. It was working on him, too. It wasn’t Danny who was the weak link, it was him. He was the vulnerable one, the one who could be bent and twisted until something snapped.
The wind sighed through the trees, and the fallen leaves rattled up the deserted walks and around the hubcaps of parked cars. It was a faint and sorrowful sound, and the boy thought that he might be the only one in Boulder awake enough to hear it.
Nineteen is the age where you say Look out, world, I’m smokin’ TNT and I’m drinkin’ dynamite, so if you know what’s good for ya, get out of my way –.
Like they say in the infomercials, you’re under no obligation.” Right. On the other hand, my mother would have said the devil’s voice is sweet. But I sat down.
Come back anytime, son. I’m thinking about lowering the price on the large.” “To a dime?” He grinned. Like his son’s, it was easy and open. “Now you’re cooking with gas.
Those aren’t bags under your eyes, they’re suitcases.
That’s all history is, after all: scar tissue.
And now, all these years later, it seemed to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended.
Better to be dirty than dead.
Barbie wasn’t sure there was that much difference between city mice and country mice when they were under stress, but he kept his mouth shut.
Any system created by the mind of man can be hacked by the mind of man.
One of his followers murmured agreement, but another quietly slipped away. Now there was Norton and four others. Maybe that wasn’t so bad. Christ Himself could only find twelve.
We see in part, and thus is the mirror of prophecy darkened.” There are other worlds, gunslinger, and other demons. These waters are deep. Watch for the doorways. Watch for the roses and the unfound doorways.
In my humble opinion, things do happen for a reason, but do we like the reason? Rarely.