Rose Madder Quotes

“The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.”
― Stephen King, Rose Madder

“It's best to be ruthless with the past.”
― Stephen King, Rose Madder

“It ain't the blows we're dealt that matter, but the ones we survive.”
― Stephen King, Rose Madder

“She isn't a big deal, of course, except to the people who matter in her life, but since these are the only ones she cares about, that's fine.”
― Stephen King, Rose Madder

“In that instant she knew what it must feel like to cross a river into a foreign country, and then set fire to the bridge behind you, and stand on the riverbank, watching and breathing deeply as your only chance of retreat went up in smoke.”
― Stephen King, Rose Madder

“It’s best to be ruthless with the past. It ain’t the blows we’re dealt that matter, but the ones we survive.”
― Stephen King, Rose Madder

“But she stayed where she was a moment longer, like an animal which has been kept in a cage so long it cannot believe in freedom even when it is offered.”
― Stephen King, Rose Madder

“She didn't like seeing that look in his face, but she wanted to see it there, she did. He was a man, wasn't he? And sometimes men had to learn what it was to be afraid of a woman.”
― Stephen King, Rose Madder

“As his arms went around her, she wondered how much of the human race understood about hugging- how good it was, and how a person could want to do it for hours on end. She supposed some did understand, but doubted that they were in the majority. To fully understand about hugging, maybe you had to have missed a lot of it.”
― Stephen King, Rose Madder

“And so thinking, she slipped not into sleep, but into that umbilical cord which connects sleeping and waking.”
― Stephen King, Rose Madder

“That’s really all art is about, I think, and not just pictures—it’s the same with books and stories and sculpture and even castles in the sand. Some things call to us, that’s all. It’s as if the people who made them were speaking inside our heads.”
― Stephen King, Rose Madder

“To fully understand about hugging, maybe you had to have missed a lot of it.”
― Stephen King, Rose Madder

“This man saw women like her all the time, women hiding behind dark glasses, women buying tickets to different timezones, women who looked as if they had forgotten who they were somewhere along the way, and what they thought they were doing, and why.”
― Stephen King, Rose Madder

“She looked at the kids, who did not see [them] because they were past the age of twenty-five...”
― Stephen King, Rose Madder

“Aku lebih memedulikan apa yang kausukai dan kauinginkan daripada apa yang kauterima dan lakukan”
― Stephen King, Rose Madder

“¡Te voy a matar! Y, te lo aseguro, si Dios me lo permite, te mataré dos veces.”
― Stephen King, Rose Madder

“Si está en San Francisco la seguiré allí. Si está en Tokyo la seguiré allí. Y si está en el infierno la seguiré allí. ¿Por qué no?. Allí es donde acabaremos de todas formas y probablemente juntos.”
― Stephen King, Rose Madder

“she had reached the perfect age: too old to be coy for the sake of coyness, but still too young not to believe that some hopes—the ones that really matter—may turn out against all odds to be justified.”
― Stephen King, Rose Madder

“that the way he treated me was perfectly okay, perfectly normal. It’s not pain I’m afraid of; I know about pain. What I’m afraid of is the end of this small, sweet dream. I’ve had so few of them, you see.”
― Stephen King, Rose Madder

“It is only a deep echo, perhaps a reverberation of her husband’s madness, as soft as a rustle of batwings in a cave.”
― Stephen King, Rose Madder

“You’ve forgotten how people are, and what they talk about . . . if you ever knew to begin with.”
― Stephen King, Rose Madder

“She’d start to feel she was getting a handle on it, and then it would whop her flat all over again, from some new direction.”
― Stephen King, Rose Madder

“when you’re sitting in a corner with your hair stuck in strings to your sweaty cheeks and it feels as if you’ve swallowed a hot stone—”
― Stephen King, Rose Madder

“The woman on the hill was her mirror image.”
― Stephen King, Rose Madder

“I’m not sure I trust my heart—it’s been scared”
― Stephen King, Rose Madder

“You had to find your way into the head of the person you were after like some kind of tiny burrowing animal, and you had to keep listening for something that wasn’t a beat but a brainwave: not a thought, precisely, but a way of thinking.”
― Stephen King, Rose Madder

“That his temper had a way of getting him in trouble and keeping him in trouble was also something he would have freely admitted.”
― Stephen King, Rose Madder

“It was also wonderful to know what was coming next, and to feel sure it wasn’t going to include something sudden and painful.”
― Stephen King, Rose Madder

“She wasn’t able to explain the complex feelings that spot had aroused in her, and she wasn’t able to admit to the anger she had felt—anger which had seemed simultaneously new and like an old friend—”
― Stephen King, Rose Madder

“Men are beasts,” Rose Madder said conversationally. “Some can be gentled and trained. Some cannot. When we come upon one who cannot be gentled and trained -a rogue- should we feel that we have been cursed or cheated? Should we sit by the side of the road -or in a rocking chair by the bed, for that matter- bewailing our fate? Should we rage against ka? No, for ka is the wheel that moves the world, and the man or woman who rages against it will be crushed under its rim. But rogue beasts must be dealt with. And we must go about that task with hopeful hearts, for the next beast may always be different.”
― Stephen King, Rose Madder