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“And I believe in A. Conan Doyle, who had Sherlock Holmes say, ‘Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” (The Outsider Quotes)
Stephen King
The Outsider
“Anything is possible,” she said to the empty room. “Anything at all. The world is full of strange nooks and crannies.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“Down here, I believe there are more universes in every fistful of sand, because infinity is a two-way street”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“Dreams are the way we touch the unseen world, that’s what I believe. They are a special gift.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“He felt feverish and a little sick to his stomach. How could a normal man in the twenty-first century accept a shape-shifting monster? If you believed in Holly Gibney’s outsider, her El Cuco, then everything was on the table. No end to the universe.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“I believe in my consciousness and my unconscious, even though I don’t know what those things are.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“I believe there’s another dozen thoughts lined up behind each one I’m aware of.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“I had a friend who used to tell me that all the time,” Holly said, and suddenly felt like crying. It was that phrase—I had a friend. Time had passed, and time probably did heal all wounds, but God, some of them healed so slowly. And the difference between I have and I had was such a gulf.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“I learned that every addict knows two things: he can’t use and he must use. That’s the knot in your head, see? You can’t cut it and you can’t untie it, so you have to learn to rise above it. It can be done, but you have to remember the basic situation. You must but you can’t.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“I think it was someone else. I think it was an outsider.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“I would like to believe in God,” she said, “because I don’t want to believe we just end, even though it balances the equation—since we came from blackness, it seems logical to assume that it’s to blackness we return. But I believe in the stars, and the infinity of the universe. That’s the great Out There. Down here, I believe there are more universes in every fistful of sand, because infinity is a two-way street.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“If we believe in monsters, in the supernatural, how do we believe in anything?”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“If you can’t let go of the past, the mistakes you’ve made will eat you alive.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“It was no dream she said. Dreams fade. Reality doesn’t.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“It was the look of some woman in a third world country, watching as her village burned.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“It would have been foolish and melodramatic to call it the smell of lost hope, but that was what it smelled like to Holly, just the same.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“It’s going to be all right, Gold had said, and that was what Terry hung onto. But of course it wasn’t.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“Just promise me you’ll stop every once in a while and acknowledge the day, honey. It’s the only one you’ll have until tomorrow.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“Like measles, mumps, or rubella, tragedy was contagious. Unlike those diseases, there was no vaccine.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“Maybe that was strange. Maybe it was sad. Maybe it was what literary types called irony.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“Money was no cure for sorrow, Alec reflected, but it did allow one to grieve in relative comfort.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“Much better than The Shining and Barry Lyndon, in my opinion, but of course he was much younger when he made it. Young artists are much more likely to be risk-takers, in my opinion.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“My tongue runs like a supermarket conveyor belt on payday.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“Not really. I’ve seen Paths of Glory at least a dozen times. It’s one of Mr. Kubrick’s finest. Much better than The Shining and Barry Lyndon, in my opinion, but of course he was much younger when he made it.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“One great thing about hard drugs – everything still hurts, but you don’t give a shit.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“People are blind to explanations that lie outside their perception of reality.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“People had the mistaken idea that Poe wrote fantastic stories about the supernatural, when in fact he wrote realistic stories about abnormal psychology.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“Person did what a person could, whether it was setting up gravestones or trying to convince twenty-first-century men and women that there were monsters in the world, and their greatest advantage was the unwillingness of rational people to believe.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“Reality is thin ice, but most people skate on it their whole lives and never fall through until the very end. We did fall through, but we helped each other out. We’re still helping each other.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“She checked her Fitbit again and saw her pulse was now up to one-twenty. She chugged down the rest of her latte, anyway. Living dangerously.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“Silence for a moment in the connection between his place in the world and hers.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“Strange, the things you noticed when your day—your life—suddenly went over a cliff you hadn’t even known was there.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“Strip away the metaphors, Jeannie had said, and you are left with the inexplicable. The supernatural. Only that’s not possible. The supernatural may exist in books and movies, but not in the real world.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“Terry gave him a look of which only high school teachers are capable: We both know you’re an idiot, but I will not embarrass you in front of your peers by saying so.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“That was also true of Morris Bellamy, a crazy literature buff who had killed his favorite writer.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“The Mr. Sunshine who’d sat beside his ex at the dinner table disappeared. Mr. Gonna Rain A Bitch took his place.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“The truth was often like that, he thought—a bleary circle of light behind clouds.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“There were no stars, but he could still make out the moon behind the clouds that were moving in. The truth was often like that, he thought—a bleary circle of light behind clouds. Sometimes it broke through; sometimes the clouds thickened, and the light disappeared completely.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“There’s… a force for good in the world. That’s something else I believe. Partly so I don’t go crazy when I think of all the awful things that happen, I guess, but…also…well the evidence seems to bear it out, wouldn’t you say? Not just here but everywhere. There’s some force that tries to restore the balance.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“They watched without talking, each in his own way exploring the edges of the hole that had appeared in their lives, so as not to fall in.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“Thinking that if a person did begin considering supernatural possibilities, that person would no longer be able to think of himself as a completely sane person, and thinking about one’s sanity was maybe not a good thing. It was like thinking about your heartbeat: if you had to go there, you might already be in trouble.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“Thought only gives the world an appearance of order to anyone weak enough to be convinced by its show.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“Time had passed, and time probably did heal all wounds, but God, some of them healed so slowly. And the difference between I have and I had was such a gulf.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“Time’s passage was a mystery, but it was a normal mystery.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“When the mind’s filter disappeared, the big picture disappeared with it. There was no forest, only trees. At its worst, there were no trees, either. Just bark.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“When you get old, peace is about all you want.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“Would either of you like to tell me why you have arrested Flint City’s 2015 Man of the Year? Is it just a mistake, one we can perhaps smooth over, or have you lost your fucking minds?”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“You know what they say, there are none so blind as those who will not see.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“You really don’t believe Terry killed the Peterson boy?” “No more than I think Heath Holmes killed those two girls,” she said. “I think it was someone else. I think it was an outsider.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
“Young artists are much more likely to be risk-takers, in my opinion.”
Stephen King
The Outsider
