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Sleeping Beauties QUOTES

Sleeping Beauties QUOTES

1 " Another part of getting older: you forgot what you wanted to remember, and remembered what you wanted to forget. "

― Stephen King , Sleeping Beauties

2 " sometimes you get what you want, but mostly you get what you get. "

― Stephen King , Sleeping Beauties

3 " Hicks was examining the paperbacks Maura had culled from the shelves: Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Joe Hill. "

― Stephen King , Sleeping Beauties

4 " Until this point Tiffany had assumed that abusers... must live in denial. If not, how could they go on? How could you hurt or degrade a person when you were fully cognisant of what you were doing? Well, it turned out you could... "

― Stephen King , Sleeping Beauties

5 " Lila harboured an unspoken belief that motherhood was the best possible rehearsal for a prospective police officer.. Mothers were naturals for law enforcement, because toddlers, like criminals, were often belligerent and destructive.
If you could get through those early years without losing your cool or blowing your top, you might be able to deal with grown-up crime. The key was to not react, to stay adult.. "

― Stephen King , Sleeping Beauties

6 " Mrs. Henderson looked up at the sheriff and smiled pleasantly.
"Is my husband still alive?" she asked.
"Yes, ma'am. He's hanging in there," he replied.
"Good," she said. "I hope he lives."
The sheriff nodded. The old woman smiled.
"Because I really want to stab him again."
Wit that, Mrs. Henderson went back to reading the Bible. "

― Stephen King , Sleeping Beauties

7 " - Nem ez fájt annyira, mint inkább az érzés, hogy ezt érdemlem, azt, hogy a drogos férjem beverje a drogos pofám. Gyűlölöm magam ezért. Emlékszem, ott feküdtem a földön, láttam, hogy a hűtő alatt egy ötcentes hever a földön, körülöttem a kék tál darabjai, és arra gondoltam, mindjárt jön a gyermekvédelem, hogy elvigye Bobbyt. És tényleg jöttek. Egy zsaru vitte ki Bobbyt a házamból, és az én kicsim úgy sírt utánam, és ez lett volna a legszomorúbb dolog egész életemben, csak éppen úgy ki voltam ütve, hogy nem éreztem semmit. "

― Stephen King , Sleeping Beauties

8 " Civilians had no idea how much nonsense you had to listen to when you were a cop. The public loved to salute police officers for their bravery, but no one ever gave credit for the day-in, day-out fortitude required to put up with the bullshit. While courage was an excellent feature in a police officer, a built-in resistance to gibberish was, in Lila's opinion, just as important. "

― Stephen King , Sleeping Beauties

9 " It makes no difference if you're rich or poor
Or if you're smart or dumb.
A woman's place in this old world
Is under some man's thumb,
And if you're born a woman
You're born to be hurt.
You're born to be stepped on,
Lied to,
Cheated on,
And treated like dirt.
-Sandy Posey, 'Born a Woman'
Lyrics by Martha Sharp "

― Stephen King , Sleeping Beauties

10 " Don't say pussy when it means weak". "

― Stephen King , Sleeping Beauties

11 " Dark green mountains knuckled up in the distance. Clouds seemed to be melting on the pan of the fair blue sky. Birds flew and sang. Wasn't it a hell of a shame, the way good country got wasted on folks. "

― Stephen King , Sleeping Beauties

12 " And was he judging all men by himself? No. He was a member of the tribe, that was all. It was women who were the real riddles. "

― Stephen King , Sleeping Beauties

13 " The idea had just occurred to him and he was immediately cheered. You couldn't stop your body from breaking down and thickening, but you could fight back. "

― Stephen King , Sleeping Beauties

14 " Hicks szemügyre vette a könyveket, amiket Maura begyűjtött a polcokról: Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Joe Hill.
- Ezek horrortörténetek! - kiáltott fel. - Hagyjuk, hogy az elítéltek ilyesmit olvassanak?
- Csak ezt olvassák, meg a romantikus regényeket, uram - jelentette ki Maura (...). "

― Stephen King , Sleeping Beauties

15 " But the cavalry arrived only in the movies. "

― Stephen King , Sleeping Beauties

16 " No, no,” Evie said. “People won’t pay to see such a poor excuse for a climax. We need a rewrite. "

― Stephen King , Sleeping Beauties

17 " She’d thought Troy stank: the corpse piles, the fires, the fish guts thoughtfully left out for the gods—gee fucking thanks, guys, just what we want—and the stupid Achaeans stomping around on the beach, refusing to wash, letting the blood cook to black in the sun and rust the joints of their armor. That was nothing compared to the inescapable reek of the modern world. She had been young and too easily impressed then, in the days before Lysol and bleach. "

― Stephen King , Sleeping Beauties

18 " We’re the good guys, right?” Jared asked.
“I don’t know,” Michaela admitted. “But I’m positive we’re not the bad guys.”
“That’s something,” Jared said. "

― Stephen King , Sleeping Beauties

19 " He could think of the world beyond Akron, which wasn't such a bad place but was, you know, Akron. "

― Stephen King , Sleeping Beauties

20 " Even if it's a witty, singing and dancing turd, it's still a turd. "

― Stephen King , Sleeping Beauties