The harder you had to work to open a package, the less you ended up caring about what was inside.
Stephen KingThat above all else. They did not look out their windows. No matter what noises or dreadful possibilities, no matter how awful the unknown, there was an even worse thing: to look the Gorgon in the face.
Stephen KingThe town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king.
Stephen KingHe did it now, holding it up before his eyes as he had as a boy, and it did its old, old trick. Through the floating snow you could see a little gingerbread house with a path leading up to it. The gingerbread shutters were closed, but as an imaginative boy you could fancy that one of the shutters was being folded back (as indeed, one of them seemed to be folding back now) by a long white hand, and then a pallid face would be looking out at you, grinning with long teeth, inviting you into this house beyond the world in its slow and endless fantasy-land of false snow, where time was a myth. The face was looking out at him now, pallid and hungry, a face that would never look on daylight or blue skies again.
It was his own face.
He threw the paperweight into the corner and it shattered. He left without waiting to see what might leak out of it.
Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve.
Stephen KingAre you sure self-pity is a luxury you can afford, Jack?
Stephen KingLes imbéciles sont les seuls sur terre à pouvoir absolument compter récolter ce qu'ils méritent.
Stephen KingWords have weight.
Stephen KingTag: truth words writing meaning
A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.
Stephen KingAnyway, as the old barrelhouse song says, My God, how the money rolled in. Norton must have subscribed to the old Puritan notion that the best way to figure out which folks God favours is by checking their bank acounts.
Stephen KingTag: humour
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