“But God favors drunks, small children, and the cataclysmically stoned;” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Baby Jesus, meek and mild, pray for me, an orphan child. Be my strength, be my friend, be with me until the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Small children are great accepters. They don’t understand shame, or the need to hide things.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Perhaps kids really did come into the world trailing clouds of glory, as Wordsworth had so confidently proclaimed, but they also shit… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
She is a cat with a burning tail, an ant under a microscope, a fly about to lose its wings to the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“It was strange how some of childhood's words and ways fell at the wayside and were left behind, while others clamped tight… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“He dialed the hotel he had last seen through the horn-rimmed spectacles of his childhood. Dialing that number, 1-207-941-8282, was fatally easy.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“For me, the imagination which so often kept me awake and in terror as a child has seen me through some terrible… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The perception of a child who has not yet learned to protect itself by developing the tunnel vision that keeps out ninety… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“You don't have to look back to see those children; part of your mind will see them forever, live with them forever,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
For every mother who ever cursed God for her child dead in the road, for every father who ever cursed the man… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A child blind from birth doesn't even know he's blind until someone tells him. Even then he has only the most academic… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think uncertainty is good for things. Certainty breeds complacency and complacency means that you just sit somewhere in your nice little… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We live in a society now where the sexual taboo for children has really passed by the wayside. Any nineyear-old can go… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My childhood was pretty ordinary, except from a very early age, I wanted to be scared. I just did. I was scared… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“But listen to me, all three of you, n hear this if you don't hear nothing else: everything I did, I did… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“She came to him then and lifted her arms to be picked up, something he could not remember her doing for a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The child, who is most at home with wonder, says: Daddy, what is above the sky? And the father says: The darkness… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The one thing about kids is that you never really know exactly what they're thinking or how they're seeing. After writing about… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I realized the shells were talking in a voice I recognized. I should have; it was my own. Had I always known… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“In that instant it all seemed to come clear to him- it came in a grisly flash of light, and he realized… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“You don't have to look back to see those children; part of your mind will see them forever. They are not necessarily… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“...and of course if Andrew Keene had been on the downhill side of the Standpipe, he would have exited the world in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Families, when a child is born Want it to be intelligent. I, through intelligence, Having wrecked my whole life, Only hope the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Cal thought: A new player. Terrific. Maybe William Shatner’s in here, too. Also Mike Huckabee . . . Kim Kardashian . . . the guy who plays Opie… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“And when It woke It would call them back, yes, back, because fear was fertile, its child was rage, and rage cried… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Semi-facetiously, when people ask me why I write these kinds of stories, I simply say that I was warped as a child.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The fears of children were simpler and usually more powerful. The fears of children could often be summoned up in a single… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Now that he was dead, Paul could look at him. The cop looked like a big doll that has been badly treated… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“No one ever forgets a toy that made him or her supremely happy as a child, even if that toy is replaced… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“he thinks that it is good to be a child, but it is also good to be a grownup and able to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's as if God gave you something-all those stories- and said, "Here you are. Try not to lose it." But children lose… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“That stays, the bright cameo of all we were and all we believed as children, all that shone in our eyes even… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
They walked back into the world together, wearing the gift that had been given them: just life. Pity was not love, Barbie… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Fantasy has a better chance of lasting than a lot of other things. The Hobbit and the Narnia books, they seem to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals? — Stephen King Copy Share
The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you… — Stephen King Copy Share
“October 3, 2017 The clown, Hagarty said, looked like a cross between Ronald McDonald and that old TV clown, Bozo—or so he thought at… — Stephen King Copy Share
“Eddie saw great things and near misses. Albert Einstein as a child, not quite struck by a run-away milk-wagon as he crossed a street.… — Stephen King Copy Share
It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found. — Stephen King Copy Share
“The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time... Creative people probably do… — Stephen King Copy Share
“The sun had burned through and the day had gone from dull to dazzling, yet in the west blask-satin thunderheads continued to stack up.… — Stephen King Copy Share
“God, you had enough time to have been through it three times. You've been through my stuff. I bet you over and let one… — Stephen King Copy Share
“Flakes of snow swirled and danced across the porch. The Overlook faced it as it had for nearly three-quarters of a century, its darkened… — Stephen King Copy Share
“In that instant it all seemed to come clear to him- it came in a grisly flash of light, and he realized that the… — Stephen King Copy Share
Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and… — Stephen King Copy Share
“¿Lo ves, tonto? Volvió a regañarse. Tú lo inventaste todo, gato asustado. No fue más que tu imaginación, gato asustado, gato asustado... No te… — Stephen King Copy Share
“Death . . . but not for you. That was what Walter, clever as Satan even at the end, had said. A lawyer’s answer . . . so close to… — Stephen King Copy Share
The ghost story movie that scared me the most was The Changeling with George C. Scott. I think that's sometimes overlooked, but it's a… — Stephen King Copy Share
“Climb aboard, Jonesy. I'm going to send you up where the air is rare and the view is much more than fair.” — Stephen King Copy Share
