The best Quotes from The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

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

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.

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."

Now, you need to listen to me. The world is a hungry place, a dangerous place, and a dark place. I’ve only met two or three people like us. They died. When I was a kid, I bumped into these things. I don’t know about magic. I always called it the shining.

When I was a kid, there was a place, a dark place. They closed it down, and let it rot. But the things that live there, they come back.

'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.'

Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it started.

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.

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

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

Small children are great accepters. They don't understand shame, or the need to hide things.

I think all mothers shine a little, you know, at least until their kids grow up enough to watch out for themselves.

He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.

Time is a face on the water

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.

Never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.

A coward judges all he sees by what he is.

And so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon.

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.

Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor.

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

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.

We lie best when we lie to ourselves.

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. 'Grownups are the real monsters', he thought.

What can be done when you’re eleven can often never be done again.

Maybe there aren't any such things as good friends or bad friends - maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they're always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. Maybe worth dying for too, if that's what has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.

You can't be careful on a skateboard.

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

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.