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“And what makes you think you’re a main character in anything but your own mind?” (If It Bleeds Quotes)
Stephen King
If It Bleeds
“Because there really is a second world. It exists because people refuse to believe it’s there.”
Stephen King
If It Bleeds
“Business is like football, Craig. If you have to knock someone down to reach the goal line, you better damn well do it, or you shouldn’t put on a uniform and go out on the field in the first place.”
Stephen King
If It Bleeds
“Drew didn’t know where old man Prescott had gotten the small army of gun thugs he was counting on to keep that move from happening, but he was sure it would come to him eventually. Everything was eventual.”
Stephen King
If It Bleeds
“Films are ephemeral, while books—the good ones—are eternal, or close to it.”
Stephen King
If It Bleeds
“He holds out a hand which arthritis has turned into a driftwood sculpture.”
Stephen King
If It Bleeds
“He said one of the reasons the stock market tanked so bad back in 1929 was because the more people traded, the farther behind the tickers got.”
Stephen King
If It Bleeds
“I think our phones are how we are wedded to the world. If so, it’s probably a bad marriage.”
Stephen King
If It Bleeds
“I think we mostly live alone. By choice, like him, or just because that’s the way the world was made.”
Stephen King
If It Bleeds
“It’s a dream, Drew thought. Another dream, got to be. In no version of reality could a man be lawyered at by a rodent.”
Stephen King
If It Bleeds
“It’s from Balzac. ‘Behind every great fortune there is a crime.’ That was the theme I saw, even though the fortune ran through his fingers long before he was shot down in Cicero.”
Stephen King
If It Bleeds
“It’s like you taught me to smoke marijuana and enjoy it, and now you’re saying, ‘If you like pot, you’ll really like heroin.”
Stephen King
If It Bleeds
“Love is a gift; love is also a chain with a manacle at each end.”
Stephen King
If It Bleeds
“My grandmother used to say a person shouldn’t call out unless they want an answer. I’ve always thought that was good advice.”
Stephen King
If It Bleeds
“Nothing was eternal, except maybe for the mind of God, and even at thirteen I had my doubts about that.”
Stephen King
If It Bleeds
“Promises are easily broken because they are free to give.”
Stephen King
If It Bleeds
“Reality was deep, and it was far. It held many secrets and went on forever.”
Stephen King
If It Bleeds
“The universe is large, he thought. It contains multitudes. It also contains me, and in this moment I am wonderful. I have a right to be wonderful.”
Stephen King
If It Bleeds
“Twenty-five, maybe even thirty dollars a week, half of it just for reading, which was something I would have done for free!”
Stephen King
If It Bleeds
“When an old man dies, a library burns.”
Stephen King
If It Bleeds
“When you grew up in a no-stoplight, dirt-road town like Harlow, the outside world was a strange and tempting place, and you longed to touch it in a way network TV couldn’t match.”
Stephen King
If It Bleeds
“Which is what most of our modern communications amount to, when you stop to think of it; chatter for the sake of chatter.”
Stephen King
If It Bleeds
“You can’t have everything, she thinks; into every life a little poop must fall. But sometimes you do get what you need. Which is really all a sane person can ask for.”
Stephen King
If It Bleeds
“Youth is a wonderful thing,” said Mr. Harrigan. “What a shame it’s wasted on children.”
Stephen King
If It Bleeds
