Quote by Stephen King

“A gunslinger knows pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.”

— Stephen King

“I walked the length of the ward, towards the exit with what I imagined to be the stoic, dignified stride of a gunslinger walking…

— Rob Grimes

“Kill if you will, but command me nothing!’ the gunslinger roared. ‘You have forgotten the faces of those who made you!”

— Stephen King

“It was a long mile before I could speak, to give him my practiced answer. The cliff I had always feared was just ahead,…

— Judy L. Mandel

“Not to fall was too hard, too hard; and he felt the silent lapse of his soul, as it would be at some instant…

— James Joyce

“He knew for a fact that it was possible to fall and just keep falling.”

— Tom Perrotta

“When he stopped hitting me and seized my wrists, I darted my head in and bit his hand as hard as I could. He…

— Robin Hobb

“I was no longer skin and flesh and bones. I was only feeling and sensation and pleasure coursing through my body over and over…

— T.M. Frazier

“He felt crazy sometimes. Real depravity. Late at night an electric sizzle came into his blood, a tight pumped-up killing rage, and he couldn't…

— Tim O'Brien

“He was afraid that his body would come loose, all his bones spilling out like a building collapsing, like a picket fence clattering apart.”

— Robert Cormier

“For he was not strong enough to receive the impact of unfamiliar things without a little talk to break their fall.”

— Eudora Welty

“There was already something dead about him. He didn’t rear back in his knees any longer. He squatted over his ankles when he walked.…

— Zora Neale Hurston