Stephen King vs. Mark Twain

"Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle wildly and …"

"Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave us only for minutes, and on the most mun…"

"love is what moves the world, I've always thought...it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to…"

"For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they und…"

"No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves."

"Alice had managed to get herself back under some sort of control, but it was thin. Thin enough to read a newspaper through, his bingo-playing mother might ha…"

"What Jack didn't understand was that no matter where he went, the same asshole got off the plane."

"I don't think time matters much if you're a Breaker."

"You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you."

"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."

"Go down, Jack. Get them and I'll take the cancer away. Oh, but right now he had more immediate concerns, didn't he? He was swelling up like a waterlogged spo…"

"Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret."

"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, w…"

"Luke had to use all his willpower to keep from drinking the whole sixteen-ounce bottle of water at a single go. He left a quarter of it, set it down, then sn…"

"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…"

"You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favourite chair and stays as long as it wants."

"I don't think there was anything in my brain right then except the usual background static -- the kind you get on your radio when it's turned up all the way …"

"I cried, all right. I sat there at my desk and I cried for her, for me, for both of us, for all of us. I can't remember hurting any more in my life than I di…"

"You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and…"

"No, of course victims of high-gamma radiation didn't turn transparent, like Claude Rains in The Invisible Man. They didn't start to lose inches as their bodi…"