Quotes from It — Stephen King
b. 1947
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11 quotes
Once you get into cosmological shit like this, you got to throw away the instruction manual.
It (1986)
Kids, the fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.
It (1986)
In the stutter-flashes of light, the clouds look like huge transparent brains filled with bad thoughts.
It (1986)
The sun was a molten coin burning a circle in the low-hanging overcast, surrounded by a fairy-ring of moisture.
It (1986)
And almost idly, in a kind of sidethought, Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.
It (1986)
Come on back and we'll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure in belief and thus afraid of the dark.
It (1986)
You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.
It (1986)
You could start at a path leading nowhere more fantastic than from your own front steps to the sidewalk, and from there you could go... well, anywhere at all.
It (1986)
You don't have to look back to see those children; part of your mind will see them forever. They are not necessarily the best part of you, but they were once the repository of all you could become.
It (1986)
We lie best when we lie to ourselves.
It (1986)
The fears of children were simpler and usually more powerful. The fears of children could often be summoned up in a single face... and if bait were needed, why, what child did not love a clown?
It (1986)