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“As always at these times when he felt really in need of God the front of his mind was serene, but the deeper part, where faith did constant battle with doubt, was terrified that there would be no answer.” (Desperation Quotes)
Stephen King
Desperation
“Dolls with no little girls around to mind them were sort of creepy under any conditions.”
Stephen King
Desperation
“God says, “Sure, take away the safety net. And when that’s gone, take away the tight rope too.”
Stephen King
Desperation
“He burst out laughing. She probably wouldn’t like it, but he couldn’t help it. That was the way laughing was, sort of like farting, sometimes you could hold it in but a lot of times you couldn’t.”
Stephen King
Desperation
“He supposed that if he were a young female hitchhiker, he might ask a question or two himself before hopping willy-nilly into someone’s car or truck. It might not help, but it sure couldn’t hurt. Because once you were out in the desert, anything could happen to you.”
Stephen King
Desperation
“How else could he go on, except with merciful incomprehension held before him like a shield? How could anyone?”
Stephen King
Desperation
“Life is more than just steering a course around pain.”
Stephen King
Desperation
“So it always has been; so shall it be, life sucks, then you die.”
Stephen King
Desperation
“Then he closed his eyes and put his hands together again before his face, finger to finger. Johnny was struck by the kid’s lack of pretension. There was a simplicity about the gesture that had been honed by use into beauty.”
Stephen King
Desperation
“Those who do not learn the lessons of the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Stephen King
Desperation
“When you were trying to stay alive, you just saw what you had to see; the rest went by the board.”
Stephen King
Desperation
“You didn’t have to deal with the monster under the bed or lurking in the corner if you never actually turned on the bedroom lights, that was the thing.”
Stephen King
Desperation
“You have the right to remain silent,’ the big cop said in his robot’s voice. ‘If you do not choose to remain silent, anything you say may be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. I’m going to kill you. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you. Do you understand your rights as I have explained them to you?”
Stephen King
Desperation
“You said ‘God is cruel’ the way a person who’s lived his whole life on Tahiti might say ‘Snow is cold’. You knew, but you didn’t understand.” He stepped close to David and put his palms on the boy’s cold cheeks. “Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?”
Stephen King
Desperation
