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“Age looked at youth, and youth’s applause first weakened, then died.” (Joyland Quotes)
Stephen King
Joyland
“God and heaven lasted about four years longer than the Tooth Fairy”
Stephen King
Joyland
“I can’t understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there’s already so much pain in the world.”
Stephen King
Joyland
“I’m not sure anybody ever gets completely over their first love, and that still rankles. Part of me still wants to know what was wrong with me. What I was lacking.”
Stephen King
Joyland
“In the years since, I’ve discovered there’s a lot to be said for boredom.”
Stephen King
Joyland
“It doesn’t have to be the last good time. But sooner or later the last good time would come around. It does for all of us.”
Stephen King
Joyland
“It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s hard to let go. Maybe especially then.”
Stephen King
Joyland
“My father had taught me – mostly by example – that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems.”
Stephen King
Joyland
“Nothing screws with memory like repetition.”
Stephen King
Joyland
“Passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones.”
Stephen King
Joyland
“People think first love is sweet, and never sweeter than when that first bond snaps. You’ve heard a thousand pop and country songs that prove the point; some fool got his heart broke. Yet that first broken heart is always the most painful, the slowest to mend, and leaves the most visible scar. What’s so sweet about that?”
Stephen King
Joyland
“Some days are treasure. Not many but I think in almost every life there are a few.”
Stephen King
Joyland
“The last good time always comes, and when you see the darkness creeping toward you, you hold on to what was bright and good. You hold on for dear life.”
Stephen King
Joyland
“This is a badly broken world, full of wars and cruelty and senseless tragedy. Every human being who inhabits it is served his or her portion of unhappiness and wake up nights.”
Stephen King
Joyland
“We rarely get what we imagine in this world.”
Stephen King
Joyland
“What I know now is that gallant young men rarely get pussy. Put it on a sampler and hang it in your kitchen.”
Stephen King
Joyland
“When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.”
Stephen King
Joyland
“When you’re twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It’s only when you get to be twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect that you’ve been looking at the map upside down, and not until you’re forty are you entirely sure. By the time you’re sixty, take it from me, you’re lost.”
Stephen King
Joyland
“Young women and young men grow up, but old women and old men just grow older and surer they’ve got right on their side.”
Stephen King
Joyland
