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  • February 13th, 2012 11:58pm

    Show me a man or a woman alone and I’ll show you a saint. Give me two and they’ll fall in love. Give me three and they’ll invent the charming thing we call ‘society’. Give me four and they’ll build a pyramid. Give me five and they’ll make one an outcast. Give me six and they’ll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they’ll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

    — Stephen King – The Stand.

  • February 9th, 2012 2:05pm

    True love, like any other strong and addicting drug, is boring – once the tale of encounter and discovery is told, kisses quickly grow stale and caresses tiresome…except, of course, to those who the kisses, who give and take the caresses while every sound and color of the world seem to deepen and brighten around them.

    — Stephen King – The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass

  • February 7th, 2012 9:28pm

    And so, my dear Constant Reader, I tell you this: You can stop here. You can let your last memory be of seeing Eddie, Susannah, and Jake in Central Park, together again for the first time, listening to the childrens’s choir sing “What Child Is This”. You can be content in the knowledge that sooner or later Oy (probably a canine version with a long neck, odd goldringed eyes, and a bark that sometimes sounds eerily like speech) will also enter the picture. That’s a pretty picture, isn’t it? I think so. And pretty close to happily ever after, too. Close enough for government work, as Eddie would say.

    Should you go on, you will surely be disappinted, perhaps even heartbroken. I have one key left on my belt, but all it opens is that final door, the one marked unfound. What’s behind it won’t improve your lovelife, grow hair on your bald spot, or add five years to your natural span (not even five minutes). There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal “Once upon a time”.

    Endings are heartless.
    Ending is just another word for goodbye.

    — Stephen King – The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower (via goingnineteen)

  • February 7th, 2012 6:29pm

    ladyofthelie:

    has anyone read these? tell me if i should 🙂

    The Drawing of the Three is the best, but definitely check out the first book in the series if you haven’t (The Gunslinger). Out of the Silent Planet is great, too! It’s the first of a trilogy (Perelandra and That Hideous Strength being the other two). Not sure about the Tolkien book. Could never really get into his stuff, but I’ve heard good things. 

  • January 11th, 2012 8:31pm

    I couldn’t stop laughing…

    Roland:
    “Don’t do it again,” he said to the Lady in the wheelchair.

    Detta:
    “What you goan do if I do? Rape me?”

    Roland:
    “If we were going to rape you, you would be one well-raped woman by now,” the gunslinger said evenly.

  • January 11th, 2012 6:59am

    If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

    — Stephen King