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“And all around them, the best**lity of the night rises on tenebrous wings. The vampire’s time has come.” (‘Salem’s Lot Quotes)
Stephen King
‘Salem’s Lot
“At moments like this he suspected that Hitler had been nothing but a harried bureaucrat and Satan himself a mental defective with a rudimentary sense of humor—the kind that finds feeding firecrackers wrapped in bread to seagulls unutterably funny.”
Stephen King
‘Salem’s Lot
“Ben smiled back, ‘Mark Twain said a novel was a confession to everything by a man who had never done anything.”
Stephen King
‘Salem’s Lot
“But small towns have long memories and pass their horrors down ceremonially from generation to generation.”
Stephen King
‘Salem’s Lot
“But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you.”
Stephen King
‘Salem’s Lot
“Corey Bryant sank into a great forgetful river, and that river was time, and its waters were red.”
Stephen King
‘Salem’s Lot
“Crying was like pissing everything out on the ground.”
Stephen King
‘Salem’s Lot
“God grant me to SERENITY to accept what I cannot change the TENACITY to change what I may and the GOOD LUCK not to f*** up too often”
Stephen King
‘Salem’s Lot
“I think it’s relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm because their willingness to believe doesn’t cost them anything. It doesn’t keep them awake nights. But the idea that the evil that men do lives after them is more unsettling.”
Stephen King
‘Salem’s Lot
“If a man dethrones God in his heart, Satan must ascend to His position.”
Stephen King
‘Salem’s Lot
“If you haven’t considered it already, consider it now: there is every possibility that some of us, or all of us, may live and triumph, only to stand trial for murder.”
Stephen King
‘Salem’s Lot
“It conjured up an image of fate, not blind at all but equipped with sentient 20/20 vision and intent on grinding helpless mortals between the great millstones of the universe to make some unknown bread.”
Stephen King
‘Salem’s Lot
“It proves little, except that perhaps in America even a pig can aspire to immortality.”
Stephen King
‘Salem’s Lot
“It was a moment he remembered for years after, as though a special small slice had been cut from the cake of time. If nothing fires between two people, such an instant simply falls back into the general wrack of memory.”
Stephen King
‘Salem’s Lot
“Oddly, the burned hand didn’t seem to hurt much anymore; it was only numb. It would have been better if there had been pain. Pain was at least real.”
Stephen King
‘Salem’s Lot
“Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.”
Stephen King
‘Salem’s Lot
“Storytelling is as natural as breathing; plotting is the literary version of artificial respiration.”
Stephen King
‘Salem’s Lot
“That above all else. They did not look out their windows. No matter what noises or dreadful possibilities, no matter how awful the unknown, there was an even worse thing: to look the Gorgon in the face.”
Stephen King
‘Salem’s Lot
“The basis of all human fears, he thought. A closed door, slightly ajar.”
Stephen King
‘Salem’s Lot
“The best-educated doctor in the world is standing on a low island in the middle of a sea of ignorance.”
Stephen King
‘Salem’s Lot
“The country is an amazing paradox. In other lands, when a man eats to his fullest day after day, that man becomes fat…sleepy…piggish. But in this land…it seems the more you have the more aggressive you become.”
Stephen King
‘Salem’s Lot
“The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood’s dark turns and exhalations. A wise child recognizes it and submits to the necessary consequences. A child who counts the cost is a child no longer.”
Stephen King
‘Salem’s Lot
“The sandwich he made was bologna and cheese, his favorite. All the sandwiches he made were his favorites; that was one of the advantages of being single.”
Stephen King
‘Salem’s Lot
“The sun loses its thin grip on the air first, turning it cold, making it remember that winter is coming and winter will be long.”
Stephen King
‘Salem’s Lot
“The town cares for devil’s work no more than it cares for God’s or man’s. It knew darkness. And darkness was enough.”
Stephen King
‘Salem’s Lot
“The town has a sense, not of history, but of time, and the telephone poles seem to know this. If you lay your hand against one, you can feel the vibration from the wires deep within the wood, as if souls had been imprisoned in there and were struggling to get out.”
Stephen King
‘Salem’s Lot
“The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king.”
Stephen King
‘Salem’s Lot
“There is no group therapy or psychiatry or community social services for the child who must cope with the thing under the bed or in the cellar every night, the thing which leers and capers and threatens just beyond the point where vision will reach. The same lonely battle must be fought night after night and the only cure is the eventual ossification of the imaginary faculties, and this is called adulthood.”
Stephen King
‘Salem’s Lot
“There is no life here but the slow death of days, and so when the evil falls on the town, its coming seems almost preordained, sweet and morphic. It is almost as though the town knows the evil was coming and the shape it would take.”
Stephen King
‘Salem’s Lot
“There were fourteen steps exactly fourteen. But the top one was smaller, out of proportion, as if it had been added to avoid the evil number.”
Stephen King
‘Salem’s Lot
“Things were going very fast now. Too fast to suit him. Fantasy and reality had merged.”
Stephen King
‘Salem’s Lot
“To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex.”
Stephen King
‘Salem’s Lot
“We’d all be scared if we knew what was swept under the carpet of each other’s minds”
Stephen King
‘Salem’s Lot
“Writing controlled fiction is called “plotting.” Buckling your seatbelt and letting the story take over, however…that is called “storytelling.” Storytelling is as natural as breathing; plotting is the literary version of artificial respiration.”
Stephen King
‘Salem’s Lot
He threw the paperweight into the corner and it shattered. He left without waiting to see what might leak out of it.”
Stephen King
‘Salem’s Lot
