Needful Things Quotes

“I'm having a magenta day. Not just red, but magenta!”
― Stephen King, Needful Things

“Everyone loves something for nothing...even if it costs everything.”
― Stephen King, Needful Things

“There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them . . . and then there were people who lied because they were waiting for it to be time to tell the truth.”
― Stephen King, Needful Things

“Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha?

She had shaken her head slowly.

Men and women who can't get over their past . . . That's what ghosts are.”
― Stephen King, Needful Things

“Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions.”
― Stephen King, Needful Things

“Why is it that so many people think all the answers are in their wallet?”
― Stephen King, Needful Things

“Some tears have to be cried no matter what the hour- until they are, they simply rave and burn inside.”
― Stephen King, Needful Things

“Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, make like a tree and leave, imitate an amoeba and split.”
― Stephen King, Needful Things

“That was what I wanted, but I don't need it to be gone. I can love you and I can love life and bear the pain all at the same time. I think the pain might even make the rest better, the way a good setting can make a diamond look better.”
― Stephen King, Needful Things

“What chance?’ she had asked, bewildered.
‘Your chance. Your chance to live your own life. Right now you have the look of a woman who is seeing ghosts. Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha?’
She had shaken her head slowly.
‘Men and women who can’t get over the past,’ Aunt Evvie said. ‘That’s what ghosts are. Not them.’ She flapped her arm toward the coffin which stood on its bands beside the coincidentally fresh grave. ‘The dead are dead. We bury them, and buried they stay.”
― Stephen King, Needful Things

“Life could sometimes be grand.”
― Stephen King, Needful Things

“Because in America, you could have anything you wanted, just as long as you could pay for it. If you couldn't pay, or refused to pay, you would remain needful for ever.”
― Stephen King, Needful Things

“You must be human . . . how weirdly exotic and excitingly perverse.”
― Stephen King, Needful Things

“Ladies and gentlemen, attention, please!
Come in close where everyone can see!
I got a tale to tell, it isn’t gonna cost a dime!
(And if you believe that,
we’re gonna get along just fine.)”
― Stephen King, Needful Things

“In a democracy we sometimes have to put up with things we don't life or approve of.”
― Stephen King, Needful Things

“Sure. Sure you have. I never forget a face.”
― Stephen King, Needful Things

“It was funny stuff, sanity. When it was taken away, you didn’t know it. You didn’t feel its departure. You only really knew it when it was restored, like some rare wild bird which lived and sang within you not by decree but by choice.”
― Stephen King, Needful Things

“At fifty-one you had to keep running just to escape the avalanche of your own past.”
― Stephen King, Needful Things

“Hugh stretched out one hand and stroked the fur. It felt cold and rich, it crackled with silky static electricity. Stroking it was like stroking a clear autumn night.”
― Stephen King, Needful Things

“It was wrong, but sometimes you have to break a few eggs in order to make an omelette.”
― Stephen King, Needful Things

“Not everyone believes in ghost’s, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha?“
She had shaken her head slowly. "Men and women who can’t get over the past,” Aunt Evie said. “That’s what ghost’s are. Not them.” She flapped her arm toward the coffin which stood on its bands beside the coincidentally fresh grave. “The dead are dead. We bury them, and buried they stay.”
― Stephen King, Needful Things

“real reason he’d gone was the one most bad decisions have in common: it had seemed like a good idea at the time.”
― Stephen King, Needful Things: The Last Castle Rock Story

“He had begun business many years ago—as a wandering peddler on the blind face of a distant land, a peddler who carried his wares on his back, a peddler who usually came at the fall of darkness and was always gone the next morning, leaving bloodshed, horror, and unhappiness behind him.”
― Stephen King, Needful Things

“Castle Rock Middle School was a frowning pile of red brick standing between the Post Office and the Library, a holdover from the time when the town elders didn’t feel entirely comfortable with a school unless it looked like a reformatory.”
― Stephen King, Needful Things: The Last Castle Rock Story

“lies and love rarely went together, and never for long.”
― Stephen King, Needful Things: The Last Castle Rock Story

“She looks like a woman who just got laid . . . and had about three orgasms.”
― Stephen King, Needful Things: The Last Castle Rock Story

“It seems logical, but logic often has little to do with the way people behave.”
― Stephen King, Needful Things

“Right now it’s October, and in The Rock we let October stay just as long as she wants to. As far as I’m concerned, it’s the best time of year. Spring’s nice here, but I’ll take October over May every time.”
― Stephen King, Needful Things

“norris didn't cry, but he was apt to puke on them, the way he had puked on homer gamache that time he had found homer sprawled in a ditch out by homeland cemetary, beaten to death with his own artificial arm.”
― Stephen King, Needful Things

“It’s like my mother used to say—people have more fun than anybody, except for horses, and they can’t.”
― Stephen King, Needful Things: The Last Castle Rock Story