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“And she sees that the moonlight is losing its orange glow. It has become buttery, and will soon turn to silver.” (Lisey’s Story Quotes)
Stephen King
Lisey’s Story
“Because who would ever want to get close to another person if they knew how hard the letting-go part was? In your heart they only die a little at a time, don’t they? Like a plant when you go away on a trip and forget to ask a neighbor to poke in once in awhile with the old watering-can, and its so sad.”
Stephen King
Lisey’s Story
“For a moment the dark and fearsomely sad thoughts which inhabit her mind grow even sadder and darker; Lisey thinks they will either kill her or drive her insane.”
Stephen King
Lisey’s Story
“Her heart was pounding hard, not with excitement but with fear. The head could tell the heart all that was eighteen years over, but in matters of emotion the heart had its own brilliant vocabulary.”
Stephen King
Lisey’s Story
“I love you with all that passes for my heart. I suspect that kind of all-out love becomes a burden to a woman in time, but it’s the only kind I have to give.”
Stephen King
Lisey’s Story
“I loved you then and I love you now and I have loved you every second in between.”
Stephen King
Lisey’s Story
“I think most kids have a place they go to when they’re scared or lonely or just plain bored. They call it NeverLand or The Shire, Boo’ya Moon if they’ve got big imaginations and make it up for themselves. Most of them forget. The talented few – like Scott – harness their dreams and turn them into horses.”
Stephen King
Lisey’s Story
“I was lost in the dark and you found me. I was hot – so hot – and you gave me ice.”
Stephen King
Lisey’s Story
“I’m so afraid that all I can reach will lead me to all I dare not see.”
Stephen King
Lisey’s Story
“Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still had the house to yourself. That you and the mice in the walls were the only ones still breathing.”
Stephen King
Lisey’s Story
“Ninety-eight percent of what goes on in people’s heads is none of their smucking business.”
Stephen King
Lisey’s Story
“She nods. You’re good for the ones you love. You want to be good for the ones you love, because you know that your time with them will end up being too short, no matter how long it is.”
Stephen King
Lisey’s Story
“She remembered Scott saying that people shouldn’t be allowed houses with more than two toilets to shit in, it gives them delusions of grandeur.”
Stephen King
Lisey’s Story
“Some things you never forgot. She had come to believe that the very things the practical world dismissed as ephemera—things like songs and moonlight and kisses—were sometimes the things that lasted the longest. They might be foolish, but they defied forgetting. And that was good.”
Stephen King
Lisey’s Story
“Sometimes she’d go a whole day without thinking of him or missing him. Why not? She had quite a full life, and really, he’d often been hard to deal with and hard to live with.”
Stephen King
Lisey’s Story
“The harder you had to work to open a package, the less you ended up caring about what was inside.”
Stephen King
Lisey’s Story
“The way those old memories kept bubbling to the surface in the present tense was disturbing. It was as if the past had never died; as if on some level of time’s great tower, everything was still happening.”
Stephen King
Lisey’s Story
“There are great drifting theatre curtains in the sky, and they change color as she watches: green goes to purple, purple to vermilion, vermilion to a queer bloody shade of red she cannot name. Russet perhaps comes close, but that isn’t it exactly. She thinks no one has ever named the shade she’s seeing.”
Stephen King
Lisey’s Story
“There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.”
Stephen King
Lisey’s Story
“There’s a lot of things people think they can’t do and then discover they can when they find themselves tight-wired.”
Stephen King
Lisey’s Story
“Time apparently did nothing but blunt grief’s sharpest edge so that it hacked rather than sliced.”
Stephen King
Lisey’s Story
“Whoever said misery loves company was full of shit. Whatever can go wrong will go wrong, however… that guy was onto something.”
Stephen King
Lisey’s Story
“You’re good for the ones you love. You want to be good for the ones you love. Because you know that your time with them will end up being too short, no matter how long it is.”
Stephen King
Lisey’s Story
