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Hearts in Atlantis QUOTES

Hearts in Atlantis QUOTES

1 " Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two. "

― Stephen King , Hearts in Atlantis

2 " Time heals all wounds. "

― Stephen King , Hearts in Atlantis

3 " A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work the handle with your own strength. You do this because you expect to get back more than you give. "

― Stephen King , Hearts in Atlantis

4 " Good books are for consideration after, too. "

― Stephen King , Hearts in Atlantis

5 " Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too. "

― Stephen King , Hearts in Atlantis

6 " Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity "

― Stephen King , Hearts in Atlantis

7 " Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map. "

― Stephen King , Hearts in Atlantis

8 " It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills. In the end even war ran up the white flag. Or so he hoped. He hoped that in the end even war surrendered. "

― Stephen King , Hearts in Atlantis

9 " Read sometimes for the story, Bobby. Don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words - the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers that won't do that. But when you find a book that has both good story and good words, treasure that book. "

― Stephen King , Hearts in Atlantis

10 " What you don’t know, you can’t tell. Or made to tell. "

― Stephen King , Hearts in Atlantis

11 " Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't. "

― Stephen King , Hearts in Atlantis

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

― Stephen King , Hearts in Atlantis

13 " Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality. "

― Stephen King , Hearts in Atlantis

14 " And this wasn’t lying, not really. It was leaving out. "

― Stephen King , Hearts in Atlantis

15 " It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting. "

― Stephen King , Hearts in Atlantis

16 " Hearts are tough, Most times they don't break. Most times they are only bend "

― Stephen King , Hearts in Atlantis

17 " Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map.... A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. "

― Stephen King , Hearts in Atlantis

18 " There’s always someone who knows something. "

― Stephen King , Hearts in Atlantis

19 " Good luck, good will, good fortune, not ill. "

― Stephen King , Hearts in Atlantis

20 " Because we never got out. We never got out of the green. Our generation died there. "

― Stephen King , Hearts in Atlantis