Quotes From "Joyland" By Stephen King

Several times we had been very close to "it, " but "it" just never quite happened. She always drew back, and I never pressed her. God help me, I was being gallant. I have wondered often since what would have changed (for good or for ill) had I not been. What I know now is that gallant young men rarely get pussy. Put it on a sampler and hang it in your kitchen. Stephen King

When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect you've been looking at the map upside down, and not until you're forty are you entirely sure. By the time you're sixty, take it from me, you're fucking lost. Stephen King

Fifty yards ahead of us, a doe had come out of the woods. She stepped delicately over one rusty GS&WM track and onto the railbed, where the weeds and goldenrod were so high they brushed against her sides. She paused there, looking at us calmly, ears cocked forward. What I remember about that moment was the silence. No bird sang, no plane went droning overhead. If my mother had been with us, she'd have had her camera and would have been taking pictures like mad. Thinking of that made me miss her in a way I hadn't in years. . Stephen King

What I know now is that gallant young men rarely get pussy. Put it on a sampler and hang it in your kitchen. Stephen King

When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction. Stephen King

When you’retwenty-one, life is a roadmap. It’s only when you get to betwenty-five or so that youbegin to suspect you’ve beenlooking at the map upsidedown, and not until you’reforty are you entirely sure. Stephen King

But sooner or later the last good time would come around. It does for all of us. Stephen King

She looked beautiful, standing there barefoot in her faded jeans. I wanted to take her in my arms, and lift her, and carry her into some untroubled future. Instead, I left her where she was. That's not the world we live in, she'd said, and how right she was, Stephen King

We're not quite ending where we began, but close enough. Close enough. Stephen King

The world has given me a good life since then, I won't deny it, but sometimes I hate the world, anyway. Dick Cheney, that apologist for water boarding and for too long chief preacher in the Holy Church of Whatever it Takes, got a brand-new heart while I was writing this - how about that? He lives on; other people have died. Stephen King

...there are worse things than losing the girl. Stephen King

God and heaven lasted about four years longer than the Tooth Fairy Stephen King

His mind is like that. On the inside, where he never smiles. Stephen King

I was tired of just letting things happen to me and then feeling bad about them. Stephen King

The last good time always comes Stephen King

Not today. Instead of Wendy, I found myself thinking of Annie Ross and realizing I’d developed a small but powerful crush on her. The fact that nothing could come of it–she had to be ten years older than me, maybe twelve–only seemed to make things worse. Or maybe I mean better, because unrequited love does have its attractions for young men. Stephen King

In the years since, I've discovered there's a lot to be said for boredom. Stephen King