Children have to grow into their imaginations like a pair of oversized shoes.
ImaginationStephen King in The ShiningShe had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.
Stephen King in The ShiningSmall children are great accepters. They don't understand shame, or the need to hide things.
Stephen King in The ShiningI think all mothers shine a little, you know, at least until their kids grow up enough to watch out for themselves.
Stephen King in The ShiningHe 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.
Stephen King in The ShiningBut see that you get on. That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.
Stephen King in The ShiningWe sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.
MonstersStephen King in The ShiningThe tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge.
Stephen King in The ShiningMonsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.
Ghosts, MonstersStephen King in The ShiningGod wiped snot out of his nose and that was you.
Stephen King in The ShiningHow many times, over how many years, had he - a grown man - asked for the mercy of another chance? He was suddenly so sick of himself, so revolted, that he could have groaned aloud.
Stephen King in The Shining