3,428 Quotes by Stephen King

He brought the hammer down on the stake once more, and the blood that pulsed from Barlow's chest turned black. Then, dissolution. It came in the space of two seconds, too fast to ever be believed in the daylight of later years, yet slow enough to recur again and again in nightmares, with awful stopmotion slowness.

The thunder of the breakers was tremendous down here, bigger than the world. Like standing inside a thunderstorm. And if we were the last people on earth, so what? This would go on as long as there was a moon to pull the water.

When Annie's treatin, you best be eatin.

Just the act of cooking made her feel better, because cooking was life.

Everyone— black as well as white— thinks it's going to be better over the next jump of land.

(...), se tapó los ojos con el brazo tratando de aferrarse a su rabia porque le da daba valor. Un hombre valiente podía pensar. Un cobarde, no.

Misery suffered did not justify misery to come.

Er legte sich zurück, bedeckte die Augen mit einem Arm und versuchte, sich an seine Wut zu klammern, denn mit dieser Wut fühlte er sich tapfer. Ein tapferer Mann konnte denken. Ein Feigling nicht.

Ein Mädchen, das um Mitternacht für gewöhnlich wie eine Königin aussah und wie ein Gnom um zehn Uhr am nächsten Morgen