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Heart Quotes by Stephen King

74 Heart quotes by Stephen King

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Heart is treated as the source of strong feelings in stories, aiming to make readers laugh, cry, or both. The quotes mention confronting darkness, the idea of “killing your darlings” to improve writing, and the way broken hearts can mend over time.

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There seems to be no air in the air she breaths.

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“I wanted to move on-...rehab my heart, move on.”

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“Tears were her final defense.”

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Every marriage has two hearts, one light and one dark

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Luck's the word those with poor hearts use for ka...

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“Pain rises. From the heart to the head pain rises.”

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“I kill with my heart, motherfucker”

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“She had always consciously or unconsciously formed fear into a simple equation: fears = unknown.”

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Anger is the most useless emotion," Henchick intoned, "destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart.

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“She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong.”

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“She thought her heart would swell with happiness until it killed her.”

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“...She helped me find my heart when I thought my heart was gone.”

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The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.

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“Could she lay hope to rest or did she have to carry it yet awhile longer?”

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“I'm Susannah Dean, the small and crippled," she said, "and I was raised to be polite, but not to suffer bullshit.”

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There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it…

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Now I think all of us were born with a hole in our hearts, and we go around looking for the person…

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“Roland’s heart seemed to twist like a rag inside his chest, and there was a moment to wonder how it could possibly…

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“She never looked twice at me in the daytime, but at night, as I lay in bed and drifted toward sleep, we…

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“The trouble with living alone, she had discovered-and the reason why most people she knew didn't like to be alone even for…

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“And now, all these years later, it seemed to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts…

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For me, that emotional payoff is what it’s all about. I want you to laugh or cry when you read a story...or…

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She felt like someone who drowns remembering what it was like to still be on the boat, so calm and at ease,…

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These self-appointed deacons in the Church of Latter-Day American Literature seem to regard generosity (of words) with suspicion, texture with dislike, and…

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And if there are no cars or planes, and if no one’s Uncle John is out in the wood lot west of…

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People think first love is sweet, and never sweeter than when that first bond snaps. You've heard a thousand pop and country…

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I still believe in the resilience of the human heart and the essential validity of love;I still believe that connections between people…

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Because who would ever want to get close to another person if they knew how hard the letting-go part was? In your…

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“She suddenly realized she was sitting in an apartment by herself late at night, eating an apple and watching a movie on…

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Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave…

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Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She…

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“Then, instead of telling her that where there was life there was hope, or to let a smile be her umbrella, or…

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One night when my longing for her was like a fire burning out of control in my heart and my head, I…

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I love you too much to lie to you, Lisey. I love you with all that passes for my heart. I suspect…

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“She WAS my heart, and I guard what's there. Nobody takes it away from me.”

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Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.

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The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart wants what the heart wants.

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No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.

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She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all…

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

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“Climb aboard, Jonesy. I'm going to send you up where the air is rare and the view is much more than fair.”