The Shining
Stephen King
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.”
“Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in.”
“Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.”
“This inhuman place makes human monsters.”
“The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I.”
“The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge.”
“But see that you get on. That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.”
“She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.”
“Tough old world, baby. If you're not bolted together tightly, you're gonna shake, rattle, and roll before you turn thirty.”
“He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.”
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