Gravity is the anchor that pulls us down into our graves. There would be no grave for this man, and no more gravity, either. He had been given a special dispensation.
Jack Nicholson in The Shining.
No one rides for free, and in the end, even the most seaworthy ship goes down, blub-blub-blub. The only way to balance that off, in Hodges’s opinion, is to make the most of every day afloat.
It was quarter past four, that deadly time of morning when it’s too late to go back to sleep and still too early to rise and shine.
Was die Leute nicht bedenken, ist, dass sie erst ihre eigene Unsicherheit anzweifeln sollten, bevor sie an ihrem Herzen zweifeln.
Above him was a half-moon and what seemed like a trillion stars. To match the trillion pebbles, just as mysterious, that we walk over every day, he thought. Mystery above, mystery below. Weight, mass, reality: mystery all around.
It was the Trashcan Man,” Stan said. “He went hogwild. Jesus Christ only knows what else he’s wired up to explode out here.
I’m trying to justify it somehow, he thought, meaning it not in the moral sense but rather in the mathematical one. Buildings are built by observing certain natural laws; natural laws may be expressed by equations; equations must be justified. Where was the justification in what had happened less than half an hour ago?
The parlor was where you were tongue-tied, the parlor was where you itched and couldn’t scratch, the parlor was dictatorial commands, boring conversation, relatives pinching cheeks, aches, sneezes that couldn’t be sneezed, coughs that couldn’t be coughed, and above all, yawns that must not be yawned.
How we danced!” – Sadie.
I didn’t know then that a person is never sure about a lot of things, no matter how much he wants to be.
Wanting to know things and do things is what the human race is all about. Exploration, Gwendy! Both the disease and the cure!
No one rides for free, and in the end, even the most seaworthy ship goes down, blub-blub-blub.
He’s in the hospital with this flu bug. Captain Trips, they’re calling it out here. Not that it’s any laughing matter. A lot of people have died with it, they say. People are scared, staying in.
You can never be too thin or too rich. And if you don’t believe it you were never really fat or really poor.
But Danny could not seem to see exactly what the something was. His father was guarding that carefully, even in his own mind. Was it possible, Danny wondered, to be glad you had done something and still be so ashamed of that something that you tried not to think of it? The question was a disturbing one. He didn’t think such a thing was possible... in a normal mind.
By then she’s lost in the land of sleep and he is too, and when they go there they never go together, and she is afraid that is also a preview of death.
But if God made the world, then God made the drink. And that is also His will.” Ka, Roland thought.
The Eld! The Eld!” the Manni whispered, and several raised fists into the air with the first and fourth fingers pointed.
Either way, if any milk of human kindness had ever run in his veins, it had curled to sour cream long ago.