It took me twenty years of living with my father to accept the idea that being good could be good enough.
Too easy to let Myra take him upstairs and make love to him with aspirins and an alcohol-rub. And put him to bed, where they might or might not make a franker sort of love. But.
Plot is, I think, the good writer’s last resort and the dullard’s first choice. The story which results from it is apt to feel artificial and.
I don’t want no part of this crazy love.” Right on, Paul. You may be short, but you ain’t dumb.
It was a famous old hotel called the Overlook. It burned down ten years ago. The caretaker burned it down. He was crazy. Everybody in town said so. But never mind: he’s dead.
Oy opened his eyes – they were bright in the darkness – then winked at Jake. After that, he appeared to go back to sleep. Jake.
When Moses smashed the golden calf, the Israelites stopped worshipping it. When a flood inundated the temple of Baal, the Malachites decided Baal wasn’t such a hot god anyway. But Jesus has been out to lunch for two thousand years, and people not only still follow his teachings, they live and die believing he’ll come back eventually, and it will be business as usual when he does.
He could talk the devil into setting himself on fire.
Faith and power, he had come to believe, were interchangeable. Was the final truth even simpler? That no act of faith was possible until you were rudely pushed out into the screaming middle of things like a newborn child skydiving chutelessly out of his mother’s womb? Once you were falling, you were forced to believe in the chute, into existence, weren’t you? Pulling the ring as you fell became your final statement on the subject, one way or the other.
She could smell damprot, high, sweet, and cloying. She could smell madness like dead vegetables in a dark cellar.
Teil einer Ehe, die in Blut vollzogen worden war.
The nights are his, but in the daytime you will hound him and hound him until he takes fright and flees or until you drag him, staked and screaming, into the sunlight!
Crazy is safer when it goes unrecorded.
Henry said, and sat up. His hands clawed at the air, as if for holds which only Henry could see. His gouged eye leaked and dribbled; its bottom arc now bulged pregnantly down onto his cheek. He looked around, saw Eddie shrinking back against the wall, and tried.
Eddie howling at Beverly to shoot It, shoot It. But Beverly did not. This was her only other chance. That didn’t matter; she intended that it be the only one she would need. A clear coldness she never saw again in her life fell over her sight. In it everything stood out and forward; never again would she see the three dimensions of reality so clearly defined. She possessed every color, every angle, every distance. Fear departed.
Look at me,” Evers said. “I’m on TV, therefore I exist.
Winter is coming, he said to Cap.
If you don’t believe anything else, believe this: when I take you by your hand and begin to talk, my friend, I believe every word I say.
Dreams are a simple psychological emetic, and people who have them are more blessed than cursed.
Gas!” Hallorann cried, his voice shrill and breaking. “Gonna burn you, baby! Dig on it awhile!