Buchzitate von Stephen King

Ein Leben ohne Liebe ist wie ein Baum ohne Früchte.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

'I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?' She studied him, her eyes grave. 'Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.'

Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it started.

The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.

Death was no less a miracle than birth.

No great thing is created suddenly.

FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.

FEAR stands for face everything and recover.

He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes.

Sometimes you had to know. Sometimes you had to see.

'Want a Coke?' Abra asked. 'Sugar solves lots of problems, that’s what I think.'

We're all dying. The world’s just a hospice with fresh air.

Of course when you were running with the bottom dogs, what you mostly saw were paws, claws, and assholes.

Ich floh aus der tiefen Nacht - der tiefen Nacht der Kindlichkeit und wurde in den hellen Tag gezerrt - In den Tag des Erwachsenseins

I fled out of the deep night - the deep night of the protected child-life , and tugged into the bright Day - the bright day of being-grownup

We lie best when we lie to ourselves.

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. 'Grownups are the real monsters', he thought.

What can be done when you’re eleven can often never be done again.

Maybe there aren't any such things as good friends or bad friends - maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they're always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. Maybe worth dying for too, if that's what has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.

You can't be careful on a skateboard.

Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him, nor did she chalk his name on trees or write it on the walls of the Kissing Bridge. She simply lived with his face in her heart all the time, a kind of sweet, hurtful ache. She would have died for him.

Wenn man nicht lachen kann, wenn etwas schiefgeht - lachen oder ein bisschen ausgelassen sein -, ist man entweder tot oder wünscht sich, man wäre es.

Die beste Rache besteht nicht darin, gut zu leben, sondern gut zu lieben.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Monster gibt es wirklich und Geister gibt es auch. Sie leben in uns und manchmal gewinnen sie.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

Zeit ist ein Gesicht auf dem Wasser.

Time is a face on the water

Aber ich glaube nun mal an die Macht der Liebe; Liebe ist eine einzigartige bewegliche Zauberkraft. Ich bezweifele, dass sie in den Sternen steht, aber ich glaube, dass Blut an Blut appelliert, Verstand an Verstand und Herz an Herz.

But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart.

Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor.

A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.

I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.

Stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.

If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I'll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it's yours.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

When all else fails, give up and go to the library.

At this point his dream stuttered; it caught in his mind like a bone in a throat.

You could get used to anything if you had to. She knew that now.

The world is a worst case scenario and I'm afraid that all you sense is true.

Die Welt hatte Zähne, und sie konnte damit zubeißen, wann immer sie wollte.

The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.

It was like drowning, only from the inside out.

Die Leute denken ich wäre merkwürdig. Aber das stimmt nicht. Ich habe das Herz eines kleinen Jungen. Es steht in einem Einmachglas auf meinem Schreibtisch.

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.

Bücher sind einzigartige, tragbare Magie.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

Fiktion ist die Wahrheit in der Lüge.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Das Leben kann schön sein. Es kann es wert sein, dass man darum kämpft.

Lebe den Tag und lass den Tag dich leben.

Gott straft uns für das, was wir uns nicht vorstellen können.

Ich habe keine Angst.
Überhaupt keine Angst.
Der Wanderweg ist gleich dort vorn.
Es ist völlig unmöglich, sich hier zu verlaufen..

J.K. Rowling hat sieben Horcruxe erschaffen. Sie hat Teile ihrer Seele in jedes Buch gesteckt und jetzt leben ihre Bücher für immer.

J.K. Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will live forever.

Ich glaube, es würde mir nichts ausmachen, im Fegefeuer zu schmoren, solange es dort eine Leihbücherei gibt.

Der Mann in Schwarz floh durch die Wüste und Der Revolvermann folgte ihm.

The devil's voice is sweet to hear.