Sleeping Beauties Quotes

“Another part of getting older: you forgot what you wanted to remember, and remembered what you wanted to forget.”
― Stephen King, Sleeping Beauties

“sometimes you get what you want, but mostly you get what you get.”
― Stephen King, Sleeping Beauties

“In a terrified world, false news was king.”
― Stephen King, Sleeping Beauties

“Mothers were naturals for law enforcement, because toddlers, like criminals, were often belligerent and destructive.”
― Stephen King, Sleeping Beauties

“The snake said nothing in return. Snakes do not need to justify their behavior.”
― Stephen King, Sleeping Beauties

“Is so-and-so a bigger asshole than Truman?” Few could compare—in fact, so far, officially, there was only Donald Trump and cannibals.”
― Stephen King, Sleeping Beauties

“Although love is a dangerous word when it comes from men.”
― Stephen King, Sleeping Beauties

“Loss changes you. Sometimes that’s bad. Sometimes it’s good. Either way, you eat your goddam pork chop and go on.”
― Stephen King, Sleeping Beauties

“All Frank knew was that the ones you really had to watch out for in this world were the ones that couldn’t love even a cat or a dog.”
― Stephen King, Sleeping Beauties

“That was one way in which the sexes had never been equal; they were not equally dangerous.”
― Stephen King, Sleeping Beauties

“He began to limp home, because home was where you went when you were hurt and beaten.”
― Stephen King, Sleeping Beauties

“The Internet is a bright house standing above a dark cellar with a dirt floor. Falsehoods sprout like mushrooms in that cellar.”
― Stephen King, Sleeping Beauties

“The Black Angel came up from the roots and down from the branches. Her fingers are death and her hair is full of cobwebs and dream is her kingdom.”
― Stephen King, Sleeping Beauties

“The devil was unpredictable. He had been an angel once.”
― Stephen King, Sleeping Beauties

“That was the hurtful part of motherhood, not being able to fix what you couldn’t understand.”
― Stephen King, Sleeping Beauties

“people loved their pets, often with a degree of openness they couldn’t allow themselves to express toward other people.”
― Stephen King, Sleeping Beauties

“When had men not been mystified by women? They were the magic that men dreamed of, and sometimes their dreams were nightmares.”
― Stephen King, Sleeping Beauties

“As the twig is bent, so the bough is shaped.”
― Stephen King, Sleeping Beauties

“Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown,”
― Stephen King, Sleeping Beauties

“It makes no difference if you’re rich or poor Or if you’re smart or dumb. A woman’s place in this old world Is under some man’s thumb, And if you’re born a woman You’re born to be hurt. You’re born to be stepped on, Lied to, Cheated on, And treated like dirt. —Sandy Posey, “Born a Woman” Lyrics by Martha Sharp”
― Stephen King, Sleeping Beauties

“Hicks was examining the paperbacks Maura had culled from the shelves: Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Joe Hill.”
― Stephen King, Sleeping Beauties

“Time healed all wounds. Of course, as some wag had pointed out, it also wounds all heels.”
― Stephen King, Sleeping Beauties

“It makes no difference if you're rich or poor
Or if you're smart or dumb.
A woman's place in this old world
Is under some man's thumb,
And if you're born a woman
You're born to be hurt.
You're born to be stepped on,
Lied to,
Cheated on,
And treated like dirt.
-Sandy Posey, 'Born a Woman'
Lyrics by Martha Sharp”
― Stephen King, Sleeping Beauties

“Boys grow up to be men. And it’s men who cause all the trouble. They’re the ones who shed the blood and poison the earth.”
― Stephen King, Sleeping Beauties

“It was a cliché, but for all-weather company, you couldn’t do better than a dog. Couldn’t do better than a dog, period. Dogs didn’t know any better; they just made the best of it.”
― Stephen King, Sleeping Beauties

“Sons figured out they were bigger and never forgot it. Sons didn't care about the world they left for their sons or for their daughters, although they said they did when the time came to run for office.”
― Stephen King, Sleeping Beauties

“Lila harboured an unspoken belief that motherhood was the best possible rehearsal for a prospective police officer.. Mothers were naturals for law enforcement, because toddlers, like criminals, were often belligerent and destructive.
If you could get through those early years without losing your cool or blowing your top, you might be able to deal with grown-up crime. The key was to not react, to stay adult..”
― Stephen King, Sleeping Beauties

“THERE IS NO GRAVITY, THE EARTH JUST SUCKS.”
― Stephen King, Sleeping Beauties

“you wondered why in the hell the world had been created in the first place. Good things were in short supply, and so much of the rest was downright rancid.”
― Stephen King, Sleeping Beauties

“Can a dead buck with good insurance make a little dough?”
― Stephen King, Sleeping Beauties