Stephen King

For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand. ↗

— Stephen King

#lust #men #equality

I stood for almost an hour in a line of shuffling, bitter - eyed late mailers (Christmas is such a carefree, low - pressure time - that's one of the things I love about it),... ↗

— Stephen King

#christmas #sarcasm #love

Pam's father had been diagnosed with rectal cancer. It didn't surprise me. Put a bunch of white assholes together and you're going to find that going around. ↗

— Stephen King

#humor

It's how we see the world that keeps the darkness beyond at bay. Keeps it from pouring through and devouring us. I think all of us might know that, way down deep. ↗

— Stephen King

#inspirational

Adulthood is accretive by nature, a thing which arrives in ragged stages and uneven overlaps. ↗

— Stephen King

#nature

Love among the ruins... I'll tell you something, my friend: Weird love's better than no love at all. ↗

— Stephen King

#love

hope is a good thing, and good things never die! ↗

— Stephen King

#inspirational

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth. ↗

— Stephen King

#fantasy #fiction #truth #writing #writing-process

It's a long walk back to Eden, sweetheart, so don't sweat the small stuff. ↗

— Stephen King

#eden #insomnia #stephen-king #death

He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't. ↗

— Stephen King

#bravery #character #cowards #life-lessons #anger