Rose Madder
Stephen King
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.”
“It's best to be ruthless with the past.”
“It ain't the blows we're dealt that matter, but the ones we survive.”
“She isn't a big deal, of course, except to the people who matter in her life, but since these are the only ones she cares about, that's fine.”
“In that instant she knew what it must feel like to cross a river into a foreign country, and then set fire to the bridge behind you, and stand on the riverbank, watching and breathing deeply as your only chance of retreat went up in smoke.”
“It’s best to be ruthless with the past. It ain’t the blows we’re dealt that matter, but the ones we survive.”
“But she stayed where she was a moment longer, like an animal which has been kept in a cage so long it cannot believe in freedom even when it is offered.”
“And so thinking, she slipped not into sleep, but into that umbilical cord which connects sleeping and waking.”
“That’s really all art is about, I think, and not just pictures—it’s the same with books and stories and sculpture and even castles in the sand. Some things call to us, that’s all. It’s as if the people who made them were speaking inside our heads.”
“She didn't like seeing that look in his face, but she wanted to see it there, she did. He was a man, wasn't he? And sometimes men had to learn what it was to be afraid of a woman.”
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