💬 Quotes

"And it was as if a new life were beginning for them at the very moment when they had finished their long journey and taken their train into the open country."

"Time is a wheel. Life is a spiral. We are all just repeating ourselves, over and over, until we finally learn how to break the circle."

"Beep beep, Richie."

"Perhaps we are all a little crazy. Some of us just hide it better than others."

"And you always come back to Derry. It's a place where the past isn't just past; it's a living, breathing thing that waits for you in the sewers."

"Kids are better than adults at believing in things that don't exist, but they are also better at acknowledging the things that do exist—the monsters in the closet, the shapes in the dark."

"I’ll tell you something, and you can believe it or not: you’re not the ones who are crazy. The world is."

"I have lost control of everything, even the places in my head where I used to hide."

"There’s nothing so painful, so heartbreaking, as watching someone you love destroy themselves."

"People who drink like I do, they don't want to know the truth. The truth is painful."

"I am not the girl I used to be. I am not even the girl I wanted to be."

"You can hide a lot of things in the shadows, but eventually, the light finds its way in."

"The holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete."

"The world will give you that once in a while, a brief timeout; the moment before your life opens up, when everything before it has been leading up to this, a sort of abeyance."

"Most people don't have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don't know anything about."

"You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all have to find a mother inside ourselves."

"Every human being on the face of the earth has a steel plate in his head, but if you lie down now and then and get as still as you can, it will eventually shatter."

"There is nothing perfect in this world, there is only life."

"Lily, I like you better than any girl I’ve ever known, but you have to understand, there are people who would kill boys like me for even looking at girls like you."

"Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts."