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“And suddenly it didn’t seem to matter anymore, nothing would matter if she could turn over, turn over and see the stars, turn over and look once and die.” (Carrie Quotes)
Stephen King
Carrie
“And when she talks of Carrie White her face takes on an odd pinched look that is more like Lovecraft out of Arkham than Kerouac out of Southern Cal.”
Stephen King
Carrie
“But hardly anybody ever finds out that their actions really, actually, hurt other people! People don’t get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don’t stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.”
Stephen King
Carrie
“But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. True sorrow is as rare as true love.”
Stephen King
Carrie
“Graffiti scratched on a desk of the Barker Street Grammar School in Chamberlain: Carrie White eats shit.”
Stephen King
Carrie
“High school isn’t a very important place. When you’re going you think it’s a big deal, but when it’s over nobody really thinks it was great unless they’re beered up.”
Stephen King
Carrie
“In the sudden, brief silence, she heard something within her turn over. Perhaps only her soul.”
Stephen King
Carrie
“Lift the rug of your subconscious and sweep all the dirt under. Good-bye.”
Stephen King
Carrie
“Margaret had a face like the ass end of a gasoline truck and a body to match.”
Stephen King
Carrie
“Mind over matter in any form is a terrific drain on the body’s resources.”
Stephen King
Carrie
“Nobody was really surprised when it happened, not really, not on the subconscious level where savage things grow.”
Stephen King
Carrie
“People don’t get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don’t stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.”
Stephen King
Carrie
“Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, but Carrie White eats shit.”
Stephen King
Carrie
“She did not know if her gift had come from the lord of light or of darkness, and now, finally finding that she did not care which, she was overcome with an almost indescribable relief, as if a huge weight, long carried, had slipped from her shoulders.”
Stephen King
Carrie
“She was still uncomfortable about her own motives and afraid to examine them too deeply,”
Stephen King
Carrie
“Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It’s what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you’re bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.”
Stephen King
Carrie
“The low bird is not picked tenderly out of the dust by its fellows; rather, it is dispatched quickly and without mercy.”
Stephen King
Carrie
“The over-all impression is one of a town that is waiting to die. It is not enough, these days, to say that Chamberlain will never be the same. It may be closer to the truth to say that Chamberlain will simply never again be.”
Stephen King
Carrie
“The record changer clicked; another record dropped down. In the sudden, brief silence, she heard something within her turn over. Perhaps only her soul.
Stephen King
Carrie
“The spectacular incident of the stones serves as a kind of red herring in this respect. Many researchers have adopted the erroneous belief that where there has been one incident, there must be others. To offer another analogy, this is like dispatching a crew of meteor watchers to Crater National Park because a huge asteroid struck there two million years ago.”
Stephen King
Carrie
“They are surprised that he did it, though, which shows you that the male mind expects very little in the way of altruism from it’s fellows.”
Stephen King
Carrie
“They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school’s relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet. And she knew with sudden hatefulness that there was one couple like them in every white suburban high school in America.”
Stephen King
Carrie
“They stared at each other in the dark, frozen by the actual act as thought never could have done. Her very breath turned to glass in her throat. Then, inside, the laughter began.”
Stephen King
Carrie
“They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line and now the fairy tale was green with corruption and evil.”
Stephen King
Carrie
“They were trying to run, trying to hide. But the rock would not hide them; the dead tree gave no shelter.”
Stephen King
Carrie
“This is the girl they keep calling a monster. I want you to keep that firmly in mind. The girl who could be satisfied with a hamburger and a dime root beer after her only school dance so her momma wouldn’t be worried.”
Stephen King
Carrie
“Thomas Ross appears to have been something of a rarity: a socially conscious young man.”
Stephen King
Carrie
“When you get smarter you don’t stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.”
Stephen King
Carrie
“Whenever anything important happens in America, they have to gold-plate it, like baby shoes. That way you can forget it.”
Stephen King
Carrie
