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“A kid of your age—any kid—could get hold of matches if she wanted to, burn up the house or whatever. But not many do. Why would they want to?” (Firestarter Quotes)
Stephen King
Firestarter
“Apple pie without a piece of cheese is like a smooch without a squeeze.”
Stephen King
Firestarter
“But you will, I think,” Irv said, and looked at Charlie with such deep compassion that Andy felt his throat filled with sorrow and fear.”
Stephen King
Firestarter
“God loves to make a man break a vow.”
Stephen King
Firestarter
“Hadn’t somebody said that perfect paranoia and perfect awareness were the same thing?”
Stephen King
Firestarter
“He was at peace with God, Satan, and the universe. If he was not yet at complete peace with himself, that was only because his pilgrimage was not yet over.”
Stephen King
Firestarter
“He was Naked. He sat in the chain with his bare feet neatly together and watched the program. He was waiting for it to get dark. After it got dark, he would begin waiting for it to get late. When it was late, he would begin waiting for it to get early. When it got early and the pulse of the hotel was at its slowest, he would stop waiting and go upstairs to Room 1317 and kill Dr. Wanlass.”
Stephen King
Firestarter
“I believe the one thing the God of this world likes best is to give the business to people who say ‘never.”
Stephen King
Firestarter
“It’s gonna be all right,” he told her, and rocked her, not really believing it, but it was the litany, it was the Psalter, the voice of the adult calling down the black well of years into the miserable pit of terrorized childhood; it was what you said when things went wrong; it was the nightlight that could not banish the monster from the closet but perhaps only keep it at bay for a little while; it was the voice without power that must speak nevertheless.”
Stephen King
Firestarter
“Life is short and pain is long and we were all put on this earth to help each other.”
Stephen King
Firestarter
“No one likes to see a government folder with his name on it.”
Stephen King
Firestarter
“No, of course you don’t think that is possible. You look at my face and you see a monster. You look at my hands and see them covered with the blood you ordered me to spill. But I tell you, Cap, it will happen. The girl has had no friend for going on two years. She has had her father and that is all. You see her as you see me, Cap. It is your great failing. You look, you see a monster. Only in the girl’s case, you see a useful monster. Perhaps that is because you are a white man. White men see monsters everywhere. White men look at their own pricks and see monsters.”
Stephen King
Firestarter
“She came to him then and lifted her arms to be picked up, something he could not remember her doing for a long time-maybe two years. It was amazing how time got by, how quickly a child could change, change in front of your eyes with an unobtrusiveness that was nearly terrible.”
Stephen King
Firestarter
“The brain is a muscle that can move the world.”
Stephen King
Firestarter
“The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies.”
Stephen King
Firestarter
“Thud, thud, thud, riderless black horse with red eyes coming down the halls of his mind, ironshod hooves digging up soft gray clods of brain tissue, leaving hoofprints to fill up with mystic crescents of blood.”
Stephen King
Firestarter
