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“A woman who would steal your love when your love was really all you had to give was not much of a woman.” (Four Past Midnight Quotes)
Stephen King
Four Past Midnight
“And didn’t they say that, although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought the beast back?”
Stephen King
Four Past Midnight
“Have I gotten everything right? I doubt it. Not even the great Daniel Defoe did that; in Robinson Crusoe, our hero strips naked, swims out to the ship he has recently escaped….and then fills up his pockets with items he will need to stay alive on his desert island.”
Stephen King
Four Past Midnight
“I obsess over the possibility of bad reviews and brood over them when they come. But they don’t get me down for long; I just kill a few children and old ladies, and then I’m right as a trivet again.”
Stephen King
Four Past Midnight
“I still believe in the resilience of the human heart and the essential validity of love;I still believe that connections between people can be made and that the spirits which inhabit us sometimes touch. I still believe that the cost of these connections is horribly, outrageously high… and I still believe that the value received far outweighs the price which must be paid.”
Stephen King
Four Past Midnight
“I’m not taking that,” Mort said, and part of him was marvelling at what a really accommodating beast a man was: when someone held something out to you, your first instinct was to take it. No matter if it was a check for a thousand dollars or a stick of dynamite with a lit and fizzing fuse, your first instinct was to take it.”
Stephen King
Four Past Midnight
“Never believe a writer. Listen to them, by all means, but never believe them.”
Stephen King
Four Past Midnight
“The house was full of dusty late-afternoon sunlight and silence. But it did not feel like unoccupied silence.”
Stephen King
Four Past Midnight
“Then his lids closed slowly over his slightly bloodshot eyes, and Mort Rainey, who had yet to discover what true horror was all about, fell asleep.”
Stephen King
Four Past Midnight
“They ate as they came, rolling up narrow strips of the world.”
Stephen King
Four Past Midnight
“while the road of good intentions might end in hell, the people who tried to fill the potholes along the way deserved at least some credit.”
Stephen King
Four Past Midnight
“Writing, it seems to me, is a secret act—as secret as dreaming—and that was one aspect of this strange and dangerous craft I had never thought about much.”
Stephen King
Four Past Midnight
“You never ever asked Lady Luck for a date; she had a way of standing men up just when they needed her the most. But if she showed up on her own … well, it was wise to drop whatever it was you were doing and take her out and wine her and dine her just as lavishly as you could. That was one bitch who always put out if you treated her right.”
Stephen King
Four Past Midnight
