"Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.











Isn't bravery always sort of beautiful?
More Stephen King quotes
"FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.
"I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even thou...
"Memory is the basis of every journey.
"Black as night and as beautiful as forever.
"I knew there were no ghosts in there, but on the other hand, what if there were?
"He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it se...
"Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.
"If you're going into a very dark place, then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see, why in God's name w...
"Why does she have to be such a...such a...""Go on," I said. "The truth is never cussing, Son.""Such a bitch!
"Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, ge...
"Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back.
"Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we g...
"Of all the things which make up our Short-Time lives, sleep is surely the best.
"Pack up all my care and woe, blackbird, bye-bye



