Favourite Passages from S.K's Works

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FlakeNoir

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I remember that there was a post where you could leave sentences or passages from Stephen King's work that the reader liked. I wonder where it is? Would it be possible to have a permanent one?
Hmm, we did have a thread like that--maybe on the old site, though?

I could change your thread title to "Favourite Stephen King Quotes" if you like and people could post them here?
 

FlakeNoir

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Thanks Frank. :) After reading through it though, I think that thread is not quite what was suggested above, so might start a new one if the OP wishes to.
That'd be good. I don't really mean 'quotes' from Stephen King though, I mean stuff straight out of his books.

When I said 'quotes' I meant content, quoted straight from his stories, sorry to confuse. :)
For legal reasons, the passages would have to be reasonably short though, so as not to breach copyright issues.
 

Todash

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So many. SO many. This is from Danse Macabre. "We will, perhaps, link hands like children in a circle, and sing the song we all know in our hearts: time is short, no one is really okay, life is quick and dead is dead."
 

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I could never, ever, limit me to one sentence. Parts of Kings Greatness lies in writing whole passages that you just say wow over. It could be a whole chapter or it could be a scene inside a chapter but never just a sentence. If i limit myself to my favebook, IT, my choices would be: the chapter The Apocalyptic Rockfight (nr 13). That little scene where Beverly learns Richie how to handle a Jojo (inside chapter 8 but just a few pages long) or that little scene where they are pitching pennies and Ben stands up for Beverly and it ends with her telling them of the drain(just a few pages long inside chapter 9). I could go on but i think you see my point.
 

Todash

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This isn't a particularly deep passage, on the face of it, and it prefaces a heinous discovery by Larry in The Stand, but it's just very quietly true, and that's why I like it so: "She couldn't be on his wavelength all the time. That's all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship."
 

Todash

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And this one. "No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.

Or you don't."

Larry is my favorite character in The Stand. He grows so much.
 

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"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."

IMHO, This is easily the greatest opening line in literary history....mainly because of its simplicity in design yet designed to hook a whale in the mouth and not let go...........It says everything and nothing at the same time.....I'm not sure if Stephen King purposely designed it this way or if it just came out -- either way, I have never read a better perfect opening line than this one