Стивен Кинг: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 16)

“Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds.”

“Time is a keyhole, he thought as he looked up at the stars. Yes, I think so. We sometimes bend and peer through it. And the wind we feel on our cheeks when we do - the wind that blows through the keyhole- is the breath of all the living universe.”

“Anger is the most useless emotion," Henchick intoned, "destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart.”

“The monster nevers dies.”

“I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.”

“The color white is the absence of memory.”

“You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.”

“Kids, the fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.”

“Battles that last five minutes spawn legends that live a thousand years.”

“We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late.”

“Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.”

“Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children.”

“If anyone ever asks you what panic is, now you can tell them: an emotional blank spot that leaves you feeling as if you've been sucking on a mouthful of pennies.”

“People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.”

“Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.”

“May be she’ll learn something about what death really is, which is where the pain stops and the good memories begin. Not the end of life but the end of pain.”

“An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it.”

“Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.”

“And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night… and what your dreams are like.”