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Lisey's Story QUOTES

Lisey's Story QUOTES

1 " There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart. "

― Stephen King , Lisey's Story

2 " Isn't bravery always sort of beautiful? "

― Stephen King , Lisey's Story

3 " The exhausted mind is obsession's easiest prey. "

― Stephen King , Lisey's Story

4 " Sometimes she'd go a whole day without thinking of him or missing him. Why not? She had quite a full life, and really, he'd often been hard to deal with and hard to live with. A project, the Yankee oldtimers like her very own Dad might have said. And then sometimes a day would come, a gray one (or a sunny one) when she missed him so fiercely she felt empty, not a woman at all anymore but just a dead tree filled with cold November blow. She felt like that now, felt like hollering his name and hollering him home, and her heart turned sick with the thought of the years ahead and she wondered what good love was if it came to this, to even ten seconds of feeling like this. "

― Stephen King , Lisey's Story

5 " Then, instead of telling her that where there was life there was hope, or to let a smile be her umbrella, or that it was always darkest just before the dawn, or anything else that had just lately fallen out of the dog's ass, she simply held her. Because sometimes only holding was best. That was one of the things she had taught that man whose last name she had taken for her own--that sometimes it was best to be quiet; sometimes it was best to just shut your everlasting mouth and hang on, hang on, hang on. "

― Stephen King , Lisey's Story

6 " Some things you never forgot. She had come to believe that the very things the practical world dismissed as ephemera—things like songs and moonlight and kisses—were sometimes the things that lasted the longest. They might be foolish, but they defied forgetting. And that was good.
That was good. "

― Stephen King , Lisey's Story

7 " Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still had the house to yourself. That you and the mice in the walls were the only ones still breathing. "

― Stephen King , Lisey's Story

8 " The way those old memories kept bubbling to the surface in the present tense was disturbing. It was as if the past had never died; as if on some level of time's great tower, everything was still happening. "

― Stephen King , Lisey's Story

9 " When it was done and I went to sleep, I lay awake and listened to the clock on your nightstand and the wind outside and understood that I was really home, that in bed with you was home, and something that had been getting close in the dark was suddenly gone. It could not stay. It had been banished. It knew how to come back, I was sure of that, but it could not stay and I could really go to sleep. My heart cracked with gratitude. I think it was the first gratitude I’ve ever really known. I lay there beside you and the tears rolled down the sides of my face and onto the pillow. I loved you then and I love you now and I have loved you every second in between. I don’t care if you understand me. Understanding is vastly overrated, but nobody ever gets enough safety. I’ve never forgotten how safe I felt with that thing gone out of the darkness. "

― Stephen King , Lisey's Story

10 " Because who would ever want to get close to another person if they knew how hard the letting-go part was? In your heart they only die a little at a time, don't they? Like a plant when you go away on a trip and forget to ask a neighbor to poke in once in awhile with the old watering-can, and its so sad— "

― Stephen King , Lisey's Story

11 " The harder you had to work to open a package, the less you ended up caring about what was inside. "

― Stephen King , Lisey's Story

12 " I loved you then and I love you now and I have loved you every second in between. "

― Stephen King , Lisey's Story

13 " Time apparently did nothing but blunt grief’s sharpest edge so that it hacked rather than sliced. "

― Stephen King , Lisey's Story

14 " She nods. You're good for the ones you love. You want to be good for the ones you love, because you know that your time with them will end up being too short, no matter how long it is. "

― Stephen King , Lisey's Story

15 " No wonder they went nuts to know there's a world right next door to this one... and the wall between is so thin... "

― Stephen King , Lisey's Story

16 " ...sometimes it was best just to shut your everlasting mouth and hang on, hang on, hang on. "

― Stephen King , Lisey's Story

17 " For a moment the dark and fearsomely sad thoughts which inhabit her mind grow even sadder and darker; Lisey thinks they will either kill her or drive her insane. "

― Stephen King , Lisey's Story

18 " She remembered Scott saying that people shouldn't be allowed houses with more than two toilets to shit in, it gives them delusions of grandeur. "

― Stephen King , Lisey's Story

19 " suddenly the real world felt thin, like ice. "

― Stephen King , Lisey's Story

20 " Reality was a drunk buying a lottery ticket, cashing out to the tune of seventy million dollars, and splitting it with his favorite barmaid. A little girl emerging alive from a well in Texas where she'd been trapped for six days. A college boy falling from a fifth-floor in Cancun and only breaking his wrist. Reality was Ralph. "

― Stephen King , Lisey's Story