We’ll eat your steam and lap up your blood. But first, we’ll drink your screams.
Muh-muh-maybe, ” Bill said, and he felt a sudden helpless fury at his stutter, which made it impossible for him to talk fast. Perhaps they were things he would have found impossible to say anyway – how he felt he could almost see through Henry Bowers’s eyes, how he felt that, although on opposite sides, pawns controlled by opposing forces, he and Henry had grown very close. Henry expected.
God’s grace is a pretty cool concept. It stays intact every time it’s not you.
But that’s enough. Fun is fun and done is done. Turn out their lights, beautiful.
As long as you like lobster.
Don’t make the mistake of putting your heart near his hand.
It wasn’t the execution per se; except for the warden’s bizarre blue shirt, it had seemed as prosaic as getting a tetanus shot or a shingles vaccination. That was actually the horror of it. Something.
How many unsuspected selves could a person have, hidden deep inside? She was beginning to think the number might be infinite.
He could feel it, almost taste it on the night air. He could taste it, a sooty hot taste that came from everywhere, as if God was planning a cook-out and all of civilization was going to be the barbecue.
There’s... a force for good in the world. That’s something else I believe. Partly so I don’t go crazy when I think of all the awful things that happen, I guess, but... also... well the evidence seems to bear it out, wouldn’t you say? Not just here but everywhere. There’s some force that tries to restore the balance.
They were far from a hundred, but they fought like a hundred.
But it wasn’t really empty. Because here in the Overlook things just went on and on.
Start west. Go to the sea. Where the world ends is where you must begin.
A time will come, Casey had told him in those early white-knuckle days, when your mental defenses will fail and the only thing left standing between you and a drink will be your Higher Power.
One man may shoot himself in the forehead with a .38 and wake up in the hospital. Another may shoot himself in the forehead with a .22 and wake up in hell... if there is such a place. I tend to believe it’s here on earth, possibly in New Jersey.
Once upon a simpler time, before apps, iPads, Samsung Galaxies, and the world of blazing-fast 4G, weekends were the busiest days of the week at Discount Electronix. Now the kids who used to come in to buy CDs are downloading Vampire Weekend from iTunes, while their elders are surfing eBay or watching the TV shows they missed on Hulu.
You had the best of me and what have I got?
Suppose that all worlds, all universes, met in a single nexus, a single pylon, a Tower.
This situation is not quite beyond saving, but should you carry on much further – should you give voice to such thoughts – it will be.
They stared at each other uneasily and bunched closer together like small boys in a lightning storm or cows in a blizzard. There was a raw redness in that swelling sound of Crowd. A hunger that was numbing. Garraty had a vivid and scary image of the great god Crowd clawing its way out of the Augusta basin on scarlet spider-legs and devouring them all alive.