The Institute
Stephen King
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Great events turn on small hinges.”
“He wanted to tell Luke that he loved him. But there were no words, and maybe no need of them. Or telepathy. Sometimes a hug was telepathy.”
“this life we think we’re living isn’t real. It’s just a shadow play, and I for one will be glad when the lights go out on it. In the dark, all the shadows disappear.”
“It came to him, with the force of a revelation, that you had to have been imprisoned to fully understand what freedom was.”
“Between midnight and four, everyone should have permission to speak freely.”
“It was so simple, but it was a revelation: what you did for yourself was what gave you the power.”
“He was only twelve, and understood that his experience of the world was limited, but one thing he was quite sure of: when someone said trust me, they were usually lying through their teeth.”
“Back in the main corridor—what Luke now understood to be the residents’ wing—the little girls, Gerda and Greta, were standing and watching with wide, frightened eyes. They were holding hands and clutching dolls as identical as they were. They reminded Luke of twins in some old horror movie.”
“.. .what is the mother of carelessness if not assumption?”
“There was an abyss. And books contained magical incantations to raise what was hidden there, all the great mysteries.”
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knowledge, abyss, books, mysteries
