The Long Walk Quotes

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“Any game looks straight if everyone is being cheated at once.” (The Long Walk Quotes)
Stephen King
The Long Walk

“Garraty thought that memories were like a line drawn in the dirt. The further back you went the scruffier and harder to see that line got. Until finally there was nothing but smooth sand and the black hole of nothingness that you came out of.”
Stephen King
The Long Walk

“He touched McVries’s shoulders, setting him straight again. McVries looked up at him sleepily and smiled. “No, Ray. It’s time to sit down.”
Stephen King
The Long Walk

“If people just took it a day at a time, they’d be a lot happier.”
Stephen King
The Long Walk

“Just go on dancing with me like this forever and I’ll never tire. We’ll scrape our shoe on the stars and hang upside down from the moon.”
Stephen King
The Long Walk

“None of us really has anything to lose. That makes it easier to give away.”
Stephen King
The Long Walk

“The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth’s wing. An end to the agony of movement, to the long nightmare of going down the road. The body in peace, stillness, and order. The perfect darkness of death.”
Stephen King
The Long Walk

“The longer you went without speaking, the harder it gets to break the silence.”
Stephen King
The Long Walk

“The reason all of this is so horrible,” McVries said, “is because it’s just trivial. You know? We’ve sold ourselves and traded our souls on trivialities.”
Stephen King
The Long Walk

“They got that way, Garraty had noticed. Complete withdrawal from everything and everyone around them. Everything but the road. They stared at the road with a kind of horrid fascination, as if it were a tightrope thay had to walk over an endless, bottomless chasm.”
Stephen King
The Long Walk

“They walked on, somehow in step, although all three of them were bent forever in different shapes by the pains that pulled them.”
Stephen King
The Long Walk