Hello and Welcome. This page is a collection of 23 quotes that I liked and saved while reading 11/22/63 book by Stephen King. I hope you will like them too.
By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.
11/22/63 Quotes
- I don’t think anybody can ever be a hundred percent sure of anything in this wicked world.
- Although emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers are short on empathy. That comes later in life, if it comes at all.
- Living in the past was a little like living underwater and breathing through a tube.
- When all else fails, give up and go to the library.
- In both fiction and nonfiction, there’s only one question and one answer. What happened? the reader asks. This is what happened, the writer responds. This … and this … and this, too. Keep it simple. It’s the only sure way home.
- Do your best and let God do the rest.
- Coincidences happen, but I’ve come to believe they are actually quite rare. Something is at work, okay? Somewhere in the universe (or behind it), a great machine is ticking and turning its fabulous gears.
- I liked writing, and had discovered I was good at it, but what I loved was teaching. It filled me up in some way I can’t explain. Or want to. Explanations are such cheap poetry.
- Life’s simplest answers are often the easiest to overlook.
- The past is sly as well as obdurate. It fights back.
- Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitroglycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.
- Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There’s no feeling on earth like it.
- Artistic talent is far more common than the talent to nurture artistic talent. Any parent with a hard hand can crush it, but to nurture it is much more difficult.
- Life is too sweet to give up without a fight, don’t you think?
- In small towns, new preachers and new teachers are always interesting topics of conversation.
- Life turns on a dime. Sometimes toward us, but more often it spins away, flirting and flashing as it goes: so long, honey, it was good while it lasted, wasn’t it?
- We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it’s too late.
- The free market isn’t free. You need to educate yourself, son. I did, and I started when I was just your age.
- They say you can fool a scientist, but you can never fool another magician.
- I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why does it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?
- I can love you if you’re a man, and I can love you if you’re a hero – I guess, although for some reason that seems a lot harder – but I don’t think I can love a vigilante.
- When you try to change the past, it bites. It’ll tear your throat out if you give it the chance.
- I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart.