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“A lot of folks, they got a little bit of shine to them. They don’t even know it. But they always seem to show up with flowers when their wives are feelin blue with the monthlies, they do good on school tests they don’t even study for, they got a good idea how people are feelin as soon as they walk into a room.” (The Shining Quotes)
Stephen King
The Shining
“As Wendy watched them they burst into a chord of tinkling, girlish laughter. She felt a smile touch her own lips; not one of them could be under sixty.”
Stephen King
The Shining
“But grownups were always in a turmoil, every possible action muddied over by thoughts of the consequences, by self-doubt, by selfimage, by feelings of love and responsibility. Every possible choice seemed to have drawbacks, and sometimes he didn’t understand why the drawbacks were drawbacks. It was very hard.”
Stephen King
The Shining
“But it was a dreadful kind of curiosity, the kind that makes you peek through your fingers during the scariest parts of a scary movie.”
Stephen King
The Shining
“But see that you get on. That’s your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.”
Stephen King
The Shining
“Children have to grow into their imaginations like a pair of oversized shoes.”
Stephen King
The Shining
“Dying was a part of living. You had to keep tuning in to that if you expected to be a whole person. And if the fact of your own death was hard to understand, at least it wasn’t impossible to accept.”
Stephen King
The Shining
“Flakes of snow swirled and danced across the porch. The Overlook faced it as it had for nearly three-quarters of a century, its darkened windows now bearded with snow, indifferent to the fact it was now cut off from the world… Inside its shell the three of them went about their early evening routine, like microbes trapped in the intestine of a monster.”
Stephen King
The Shining
“Hallorann saw a grave sort of beauty there that had been missing on the day he had first met her, some nine months ago. Then she had still been mostly girl. Now she was a woman, a human being who had been dragged around to the dark side of the moon and had come back able to put the pieces back together. But those pieces, Hallorann thought, they never fit just the same way again. Never in this world.”
Stephen King
The Shining
“He looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to divert its course or alter it in any way.”
Stephen King
The Shining
“He needs to be corrected, if you don’t mind me saying so. He needs a good talking-to, and perhaps a bit more. My own girls, sir, didn’t care for the Overlook at first. One of them actually stole a pack of my matches and tried to burn it down. I corrected them. I corrected them most harshly. And when my wife tried to stop me from doing my duty, I corrected her.”
Stephen King
The Shining
“He rolled in his bed, twisting the sheets, grappling with a problem years too big for him, awake in the night like a single sentinel on picket. And sometime after midnight, he slept, too, and then only the wind was awake, prying at the hotel and hooting in its gables under the bright gimlet gaze of the stars.”
Stephen King
The Shining
“He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.”
Stephen King
The Shining
“How many times, over how many years, had he—a grown man—asked for the mercy of another chance? He was suddenly so sick of himself, so revolted, that he could have groaned aloud.”
Stephen King
The Shining
“I think all mothers shine a little, you know, at least until their kids grow up enough to watch out for themselves.”
Stephen King
The Shining
“It was not just Danny the Overlook was working on. It was working on him, too. It wasn’t Danny who was the weak link, it was him. He was the vulnerable one, the one who could be bent and twisted until something snapped.”
Stephen King
The Shining
“It was possible to graduate from passive to active, to take the thing that had once driven you nearly to madness as a neutral prize of no more than occasional academic interest.”
Stephen King
The Shining
“Living by your wits is always knowing where the wasps are.”
Stephen King
The Shining
“Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.”
Stephen King
The Shining
“Once, during the drinking phase, Wendy had accused him of desiring his own destruction but not possessing the necessary moral fiber to support a full-blown deathwish. So he manufactured ways in which other people could do it, lopping a piece at a time off himself and their family.”
Stephen King
The Shining
“People who shine can sometimes see things that are gonna happen, and I think sometimes they can see things that did happen. But they’re just like pictures in a book.”
Stephen King
The Shining
“She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.”
Stephen King
The Shining
“Small children are great accepters. They don’t understand shame, or the need to hide things.”
Stephen King
The Shining
“Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.”
Stephen King
The Shining
“That’s your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what.”
Stephen King
The Shining
“That’s your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.”
Stephen King
The Shining
“The sleep of reason breeds monsters.”
Stephen King
The Shining
“The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge.”
Stephen King
The Shining
“The way things should be and the way things are hardly ever get together.”
Stephen King
The Shining
“The wheels of progress; sooner or later they took you back to where you started from.”
Stephen King
The Shining
“The world’s a hard place, Danny. It don’t care. It don’t hate you and me, but it don’t love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they’re things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it’s only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don’t love you, but your momma does and so do I.”
Stephen King
The Shining
“This inhuman place makes human monsters.”
Stephen King
The Shining
“Tough old world, baby. If you’re not bolted together tightly, you’re gonna shake, rattle, and roll before you turn thirty.”
Stephen King
The Shining
“We all remember our pleasant dreams more clearly than the scary ones.”
Stephen King
The Shining
“We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.”
Stephen King
The Shining
“What Jack didn’t understand was that no matter where he went, the same asshole got off the plane.”
Stephen King
The Shining
“When we grow up, concepts gradually get easier and we leave the images to the poets”
Stephen King
The Shining
“You know, schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It’s accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.”
Stephen King
The Shining
