1. “Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.”—The Shining
2. “The world has teeth and it can bite you with them any time it wants.”—The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
3. “We lie best when we lie to ourselves.”—It
4. “Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only thing that matters is making a statement before one enters it. Cutting the skin of the world and leaving a scar. That’s all history is, after all: scar tissue.”—Mr. Mercedes
5. “A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.”—Under the Dome
6. “Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. It’s just how the world is.”—Full Dark, No Stars
7. “Did they live happily ever after? They did not. No one ever does, in spite of what the stories may say. They had their good days, as you do, and they had their bad days, and you know about those. They had their victories, as you do, and they had their defeats, and you know about those, too. There were times when they felt ashamed of themselves, knowing they had not done their best, and there were times when they knew they had stood where their God had meant them to stand. All I’m trying to say is that they lived as well as they could.”—The Eyes of the Dragon
8. “Memory is the basis of every journey.”—Dreamcatcher
9. “Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.”—The Green Mile
10. “There is no bad time for good news.”—Cujo
11. “Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.”—Bag of Bones
12. “And almost idly, in a kind of sidethought, Eddie discovered one of his childhood’s great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.”—It
13. “Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair.”—Skeleton Crew
14. “Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map…A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. ”—Hearts in Atlantis
15. “The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn’t real. I know that, and I also know that if I’m careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.”—Night Shift
16. “That’s your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what.”—The Shining
17. “God grant me the serenity to accept what I cannot change, the tenacity to change what I may, and the good luck not to fuck up too often.”—‘Salem’s Lot
18. “One of the great things about tales is how fast time may pass when not much of note is happening. Real life is never that way, and it is probably a good thing.”—The Eyes of the Dragon
19. “Anger is the most useless emotion, destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart.”—Song of Susannah
20. “No great thing is created suddenly.”—Doctor Sleep
21. “The harder you had to work to open a package, the less you ended up caring about what was inside.”—Lisey’s Story
22. “Any game looks straight if everyone is being cheated at once.”—The Long Walk
23. “We never cease wanting what we want, whether it’s good for us or not.”—Full Dark, No Stars
24. “We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.”—Duma Key
25. “When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.”—Joyland
26. “Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.”—Different Seasons
27. “For readers, one of life’s most electrifying discoveries is that they are readers—not just capable of doing it, but in love with it. Hopelessly. Head over heels.”—Finders Keepers
28. “The world has teeth and it can bite you with them any time it wants.”—The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
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