Elevation
Stephen King
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Everyone should have this, he thought, and perhaps, at the end, everyone does. Perhaps in their time of dying, everyone rises.”
“He thought he had discovered one of life's great truths (and one he could have done without): the only thing harder than saying goodbye to yourself, a pound at a time, was saying goodbye to your friends.”
“life is what we make it and acceptance is the key to all our affairs.”
“Why feel bad about what you couldn’t change? Why not embrace it?”
“He used to say what you deserve has nothing to do with where you finish.”
“Everything leads to this, he thought. To this elevation. If it's how dying feels, everyone should be glad to go.”
“You could feel weight, yes—when you were carrying too much, it made you ploddy—but wasn’t it, like time, basically just a human construct? Hands on a clock, numbers on a bathroom scale, weren’t they only ways of trying to measure invisible forces that had visible effects? A feeble effort to corral some greater reality beyond what mere humans thought of as reality?”
“The night was cold, chilling the sweat on his face, but the air was as sweet and crisp as the first bite of a fall apple. Above him was a half-moon and what seemed like a trillion stars. To match the trillion pebbles, just as mysterious, that we walk over everyday, he thought. Mystery above, mystery below. Weight, mass, reality: mystery all around.”
“A sense that you had gone beyond yourself and could go farther still.”
“Gravity is the anchor that pulls us down into our graves.”
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