The best Quotes from Pet Sematary

The soil of a man's heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it.

Maybe she'll learn something about what death really is, which is where the pain stops and the good memories begin. Not the end of life but the end of pain.

There is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.

Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children.

Life sucks, then you die.

That lesson suggests that in the end, we can only find peace in our human lives by accepting the will of the universe.

Hey police? I just saw the world's oldest, slowest kid climbing into Pleasantview Cemetery. Looked like he was dying to get in. Yeah, looked like a grave matter to me. Kidding? Oh no, I'm in dead earnest. Maybe you ought to dig into it.

And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity.

I don't think children ever forget the lies their parents tell them.

"Oh, about beer I never lie," Crandall said. "A man who lies about beer makes enemies."

It's like many other things in life, Ellie. You keep on the path and all's well. You get off it and the next thing you know you're lost if you're not lucky.

Faith is a great thing, and really religious people would like us to believe that faith and knowing are the same thing, but I don't believe that myself. Because there are too many different ideas on the subject. What we know is this: When we die, one of two things happens. Either our souls and thoughts somehow survive the experience of dying or they don't. If they do, that opens up every possibility you could think of. If they don't, it's just blotto. The end.

I fled out of the deep night - the deep night of the protected child-life , and tugged into the bright Day - the bright day of being-grownup

J.K. Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will live forever.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

The devil's voice is sweet to hear.

Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

It was like drowning, only from the inside out.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

When all else fails, give up and go to the library.

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.

But 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.

A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

The world has teeth and it can bite you with them any time it wants.

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

'I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?' She studied him, her eyes grave. 'Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.'

Sometimes you had to know. Sometimes you had to see.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Time is a face on the water

Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor.

I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.

Stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.

If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I'll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it's yours.

You could get used to anything if you had to. She knew that now.

The world is a worst case scenario and I'm afraid that all you sense is true.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.

No son, you don't want to drink beer. That's for daddies, and kids with fake IDs.

Billy Freeman: "Not many ride the bus this far north. Are you running away from something?"
Danny Torrance: "I'm running away from myself, I guess."

Children have to grow into their imaginations like a pair of oversized shoes.

And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.

We lie best when we lie to ourselves.

Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are a-sholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do.

Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.