From a Buick 8
Stephen King
Top 10 Best Quotes
“It's funny how close the past is, sometimes. Sometimes it seems as if you could almost reach out and touch it. Only who really wants to?”
“You don't always talk with your mouth. Sometimes what you say with your mouth hardly matters at all. You have to signify”
“I thought of telling him I didn't know about reasons, only about chains—how they form themselves, link by link, out of nothing; how they knit themselves into the world. Sometimes you can grab a chain and use it to pull yourself out of a dark place. Mostly, though, I think you get wrapped up in them. Just caught, if you're lucky. Fucking strangled, if you're not.”
“Law enforcement: a case of good men doing bad chores.”
“Tonight, however, the impossible was selling cheap.”
“I went into the can and shut the door before he had a chance to reply. And the next fifteen seconds or so were pure relief. Like beer, iced tea is something can can't buy, only rent.”
“The imitation lives we see on TV and in the movies whisper the idea that human existence consists of revelations and abrupt changes of heart; by the time we’ve reached full adulthood, I think, this is an idea we have on some level come to accept. Such things may happen from time to time, but I think that for the most part it’s a lie. Life’s changes come slowly…the whole idea of curious cats attaining satisfaction seemed slightly absurd. The world rarely finishes its conversations.”
“Take the dog with you,” I said.”
“But people have a really amazing capacity to get used to stuff, even stuff they don’t understand. A comet shows up in the sky and half the world goes around bawling about the Last Days and the Four Horsemen, but let the comet stay there six months and no one even notices. It’s a big ho-hum.”
“All of us look younger and sweeter when we smile our real smiles, the ones that come when we're genuinely happy.”
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