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21 " He tilted back in the decaying lawn chair, almost went over on his back, and used up some more of his screwdriver. The screwdriver was in a glass he had gotten free from a McDonald's restaurant. There was some sort of purple animal on the glass. Something called a Grimace. Gary ate a lot of his meals at the Castle Rock McDonald's, where you could still get a cheap hamburger. Hamburgers were good. But as for the Grimace... and Mayor McCheese... and Monsieur Ronald Fucking McDonald... Gary Pervier didn't give a shit for any of them. "
― Stephen King , Cujo
22 " Charity had discovered there were things you didn't want to tell. Shame wasn't the reason. Sometimes it was just better-kinder- to keep up a front "
23 " Abrakadabra, und alles verwandelt sich in einen großen Haufen Scheiße. "
24 " All the luck had been against them, but sooner or later even the worst luck changes "
25 " He was a Saint Bernard in his prime, five years old, nearly two hundred pounds in weight, and now, on the morning of June 16, 1980, he was pre-rabid. "
26 " Todo el espectro del mundo auditivo era suyo. Oía las campanadas del cielo y los ásperos gritos que surgían del infierno. En su locura, oía lo real y lo irreal. "
27 " A woman doesn't necessarily mind being looked at. It's being mentally undressed that makes you nervous. "
28 " there comes a time when children stand in judgment and their parents—mother as well as father—must stand in the dock. "
29 " Nope, nothing wrong here.” — "
30 " When there was nothing left but survival, when you were right down to the strings and nap and ticking of yourself, you survived or you died and that seemed perfectly all right. "
31 " Being frightened of him had made her angrier than ever. "
32 " What drove women crazy, she thought suddenly, wasn’t really sexism at all, maybe. It was this mad, masculine quest for efficiency. "
33 " She thought there would be no more tears for a very long time. The wound and the attendant shock trauma were too great. "
34 " I got scared, that’s all. I got scared when I’d start looking at knickknacks or thinking about taking a pottery course or yoga or something like that. And the only place to run from the future is into the past. So … so I started flirting with him. "