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“A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.” (Bag of Bones Quotes)
Stephen King
Bag of Bones
“And perhaps the greatest blessing was that we never knew how short the time was.”
Stephen King
Bag of Bones
“Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society’s map. What others don’t know about it is what makes it yours.”
Stephen King
Bag of Bones
“Compared to the dullest human being actually walking about on the face of the earth and casting his shadow there,” Hardy supposedly said, “the most brilliantly drawn character in a novel is but a bag of bones.” I understood because that was what I felt like in those interminable, dissembling days: a bag of bones.”
Stephen King
Bag of Bones
“Dead people put on weight, it seems to me; both in their flesh and in our minds, they put on weight.”
Stephen King
Bag of Bones
“Fear is actually an acronym for Fuck Everything And Run.”
Stephen King
Bag of Bones
“For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.”
Stephen King
Bag of Bones
“Grief is like a drunken house guest, always coming back for one more goodbye hug.”
Stephen King
Bag of Bones
“Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.”
Stephen King
Bag of Bones
“Humor is almost always anger with its makeup on, I think, but in little towns the makeup tends to be thin.”
Stephen King
Bag of Bones
“I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.”
Stephen King
Bag of Bones
“I see things, that’s all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.”
Stephen King
Bag of Bones
“I think reality is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves.”
Stephen King
Bag of Bones
“I was being paid to do what I loved, and there’s no gig on earth better than that; it’s like a license to steal.”
Stephen King
Bag of Bones
“My first editor used to say that eighty-five per cent of what goes on in a novelist’s head is none of his business, a sentiment I’ve never believed should be restricted to just writers.”
Stephen King
Bag of Bones
“The dream didn’t fade as dreams usually do upon waking.”
Stephen King
Bag of Bones
“The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.”
Stephen King
Bag of Bones
“The sun had burned through and the day had gone from dull to dazzling, yet in the west blask-satin thunderheads continued to stack up. It was as if night has burst a blood-vessel in the sky over there.”
Stephen King
Bag of Bones
“The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.”
Stephen King
Bag of Bones
“Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even if they try their best to be identical, because they’re never the same from day to day or even moment to moment.”
Stephen King
Bag of Bones
“Things with the power to scare the living shit out of you on a thundery midnight in most cases seem only interesting in the bright light of a summer morning.”
Stephen King
Bag of Bones
“What comes in when daylight leaves is a kind of certainty: that beneath the skin there is a secret, some mystery both black and bright. You feel this mystery in every breath, you see it in every shadow, you expect to plunge into it at every turn of a step.”
Stephen King
Bag of Bones
“When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-”
Stephen King
Bag of Bones
