Thinner
Richard Bachman
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The definition of an asshole is a guy who doesn't believe what he's seeing.”
“You were starting to sound a little like a Stephen King novel for a while there,”
“Because if you don't have someone to run out of town once in a while, how are you going to know you yourself belong there?”
“I feel that if I’m going through this hellish decline, you should be going through one also . . . misery loves company, and I guess we’ve all got a streak of one hundred percent gold-plated bastard in our natures, tangled up so tightly with the good part of us that we can never get free of it.”
“You were starting to sound a little like a Stephen King novel”
“There are no curses, only mirrors you hold up to the souls of men and women.”
“...wonder what I would say at his funeral if someone gave me a dose of Pentothal an hour before the services.” (chap. 10)”
“The first fact was that if Heidi hadn’t picked that particular day to try out a little autoeroticism, Halleck would have been on top of his job and his responsibility as the operator of a motor vehicle”
“Some guys—a lot of guys—don’t believe what they are seeing, especially if it gets in the way of what they want to eat or drink or think or believe.”
“It's easy to blame, easy to want revenge. But when you look at things closely, you start to see that every event is locked onto every other event; that sometimes things happen just because they happen. None of us like to think that's so, because then we can never strike out at someone to ease the pain; we have to find another way, and none of the other ways are so simple, or so satisfying.”
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Book Keywords:
humanity, outsider, belonging, thriller, human-nature, horror, exclusion, tit-for-tat, belief, stephen-king, revenge