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The Green Mile

Stephen King

Top 10 Best Quotes

“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.”

“Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.”

“I'm rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss. I'm tired of bein on the road, lonely as a robin in the rain. Not never havin no buddy to go on with or tell me where we's comin from or goin to or why. I'm tired of people bein ugly to each other. It feels like pieces of glass in my head. I'm tired of all the times I've wanted to help and couldn't. I'm tired of bein in the dark. Mostly it's the pain. There's too much. If I could end it, I would. But I can't.”

“It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.”

“Sometimes the embers are better than the campfire.”

“On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That it was my job? My job?”

“He killed them with their love”

“Weird love's better than no love at all.”

“I'm tired, boss. Tired of being on the road, lonely as a sparrow in the rain. I'm tired of never having me a buddy to be with to tell me where we's going to, coming from, or why. Mostly, I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world...every day. There's too much of it. It's like pieces of glass in my head...all the time. Can you understand? ...”

“We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.”

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Book Keywords:

change, suffering, time, death, sins, life, john-coffey, evil

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