Стивен Кинг: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 19)

“I was being paid to do what I loved, and there's no gig on earth better than that; it's like a license to steal.”

“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, did you?”

“I hated school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.”

“Man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that gets in his way.”

“It was not fair, it was not fair, it was not fair. So cried his child's heart, and then his child's heart died a little. For that is also the way of the world.”

“Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard.”

“Sometimes a man and a woman reach a crossroads and linger there, reluctant to take either way, knowing the wrong choice will mean the end… and knowing there’s so much worth saving.”

“Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.”

“A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.”

“The sandwich he made was bologna and cheese, his favorite. All the sandwiches he made were his favorites; that was one of the advantages of being single.”

“If God gives you something you can do, why in God's name wouldn't you do it?”

“Everyone needs a hobby,” he said. “And everyone needs a miracle or two, just to prove life is more than just one long trudge from the cradle to the grave.”

“Death was no less a miracle than birth.”

“In the end we are all caught in devices of our own making. I believe that. In the end we are all caught.”

“everyone is dead and this is hell.”

“But still, sometimes, in the heart of winter when the light outside seemed yellow- sleepy, like a cat curled up on a sofa…”

“Any parting could be forever, and we don't know.”

“Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still had the house to yourself. That you and the mice in the walls were the only ones still breathing.”

“Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.”