Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars
9 quotes
"Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt."
"Why does she have to be such a...such a...""Go on," I said. "The truth is never cussing, Son.""Such a bitch!"
"Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back."
"A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation."
"If you're going into a very dark place, then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see, why in God's name would you dare the dark at all?"
"People who leave their drugs in a bathroom the guests use are just asking for trouble."
"He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it set in again."
"Deep inside her (ih her harrowed soul) she felt a glowing ember of fury at the man responsible for this. Tha man who had put her in this position. She looked at the pistol lying beside the basin, and knew that if he were here, she would use it on him without a moment's hesitation. Knowing that made her feel confused about herself. It also made her feel a little stronger."
"When teenagers aren’t turning like weathervanes in a high wind, they’re as stiff as Puritans."