3,428 Quotes by Stephen King

Atonement was powerful; it was the lock on the door you closed against the past.

A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.

Relief loosens tongues beyond measure.

Life was basically one long SAT test, and instead of four or five choices, you got dozens.

Case closed, game over, zip up your fly.

I think houses live their own lives along a time-stream that's different from the ones upon which their owners float, one that's slower. In a house, especially an old one, the past is closer.

He was nothing but a conduit, after all, and there isn't a culvert in the world that remembers the water flowed through it once the rain has stopped.

To pass beyond communication was to pass beyond salvation.

Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha?She had shaken her head slowly.Men and women who can't get over their past . . . That's what ghosts are.