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Dark Quotes by Stephen King

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A bright light in a dark place can help you see what hides in shadows, a tip from Stephen King. He describes eerie scenes like walking dead in rain, dark corners in bright cities, and a tower that sings names. He also notes that childhood can feel alienated, mixing dreams with a strange darkness.

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“The trap had a ghastly perfection”

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“But the lobby was dark and oh so full of shadows.”

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“Come down and eat chicken with me beautiful. It's soooo dark.”

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A short story is like a kiss in the dark.

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Every marriage has two hearts, one light and one dark

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“The Dark Powers have to give before they can take.”

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“Beware the dark stranger! He rides a unicycle!”

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I dreamed of you. I dreamed you were wandering in the dark, and so was I. We found each other. We found…

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“Shadows were too black, and when a breeze stirred the trees, the shadows changed in a disquieting way.”

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Above, the stars shone hard and bright, sparks struck off the dark skin of the universe.

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The shining. It was a good name, a comforting name, because she had always thought of it as a dark thing.

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“There is nothing of God or Light in that heartless sound - it is all black winter and dark ice.”

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“When it came to the dark fuckery of the human heart, there seemed to be no limit.”

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“When it's all doom and dark outside and only you inside to first make a light then tend it, you have to…

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They walked through the rainy dark like gaunt ghosts, and Garraty didn't like to look at them. They were the walking dead.

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I love my sons and I love that they are writers - I also love my daughter, who's a minister and an…

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“Maybe this isn't home, nor ever was- maybe home is where I have to go tonight. Home is the place where when…

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Invitation to Dance- It’s a Dance. And sometimes they turn the lights off in this ballroom. But we’ll dance anyway, you and…

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The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and…

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“...but maybe it wasn't the sort of thing you could have gotten up and testified about at a city council meeting--how you…

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The idea for a novel is like a little tiny fire in a dark night. And, one by one, the characters come…

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They were nice enough people and all, but there wasn't much love in them. Because they were too busy being afraid. Love…

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Let the word and the legend go before you. Let the world go before you. Let your shadow grow. Let it grow…

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Terrifying. . . . A Dark Matter is populated with vivid, sympathetic characters, and driven by terrors both human and supernatural. It's…

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The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no…

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And all that weirdness isn't just going on outside. It's in you too, right now, growing in the dark like magic mushrooms.…

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All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs. Take my hand…

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I believe these stories exist because we sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things…

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I'm rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss. I'm tired of bein on the road, lonely as a robin…

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“His so-fucking-vivid imagination rarely gave him the horrors, but when it did, God help him. God help him once it was warmed…

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There's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror. The brain behind…

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For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we…

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I realized the shells were talking in a voice I recognized. I should have; it was my own. Had I always known…

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I write in the mornings, in the bright daylight. But I get most of my good ideas after the sun has gone…

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Our memories have voices, too. Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark.

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“I want to make sure I remember what real ugly is. I might want to tell my grandchildren someday.”

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A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a…

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“In the dark, all cats are gray . . . and to the blind, they’re no color at all.”

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“The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go”

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There's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror.

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