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Mr. Harrigan also promised this, but I suppose men who understand business also understand that promises are easy to discard, being as how giving them is free.
<If It Bleeds>(King, Stephen) Your Highlight on page 12 | Location 152-153 2020-04-30 23:15:20
“Youth is a wonderful thing,” said Mr. Harrigan. “What a shame it’s wasted on children.”
<If It Bleeds>(King, Stephen) Your Highlight on page 18 | Location 247-248 2020-04-30 23:21:06
“Free samples are fine, but if you give people too much for-free, whether it’s clothes or food or information, they come to expect it.
<If It Bleeds>(King, Stephen) Your Highlight on page 28 | Location 387-388 2020-04-30 23:29:19
People faced with a New York Times paywall went to a site like CNN or Huffington Post instead (usually in a huff), even though the reporting wasn’t as good. (Unless, of course, you wanted to learn about a fashion development known as “sideboob.”)
<If It Bleeds>(King, Stephen) Your Highlight on page 29 | Location 407-409 2020-04-30 23:30:52
Business is like football, Craig. If you have to knock someone down to reach the goal line, you better damn well do it, or you shouldn’t put on a uniform and go out on the field in the first place.
<If It Bleeds>(King, Stephen) Your Highlight on page 32 | Location 455-456 2020-04-30 23:34:10
I believe you hear a click, not in your head but in your soul, when you find the place where you belong. You can ignore it, but really, why would you?
<If It Bleeds>(King, Stephen) Your Highlight on page 76 | Location 1094-1095 2020-05-01 00:12:14
“The world is going down the drain, and all we can say is ‘that sucks.’ So maybe we’re going down the drain, too.”
<If It Bleeds>(King, Stephen) Your Highlight on page 96 | Location 1343-1344 2020-05-01 00:58:46
“The world is going down the drain, and all we can say is ‘that sucks.’ So maybe we’re going down the drain, too.” “Maybe we are,” he said, “but Chuck Krantz is retiring, so I guess there’s a gleam of light in the darkness.”
<If It Bleeds>(King, Stephen) Your Highlight on page 96 | Location 1343-1345 2020-05-01 00:58:37
Yes, because death brings philosophy to ruin, Doug thinks.
<If It Bleeds>(King, Stephen) Your Highlight on page 111 | Location 1557-1558 2020-05-01 01:10:33
“Just between you and me, you sing like old people fuck.”
<If It Bleeds>(King, Stephen) Your Highlight on page 120 | Location 1665-1665 2020-05-01 23:48:32
But fascination is fear’s twin brother,
<If It Bleeds>(King, Stephen) Your Highlight on page 137 | Location 1882-1883 2020-05-02 00:05:25
The universe is large, he thought. It contains multitudes. It also contains me, and in this moment I am wonderful. I have a right to be wonderful.
<If It Bleeds>(King, Stephen) Your Highlight on page 147 | Location 2031-2033 2020-05-02 00:14:51
Like praying to a God she can’t quite believe in, it clears her head, and by the time she finishes, she knows how she’ll go forward.
<If It Bleeds>(King, Stephen) Your Highlight on page 248 | Location 3345-3346 2020-05-03 23:41:43
Ordinarily, Drew Larson’s story ideas came—on the increasingly rare occasions when they came at all—a little at a time, like dribbles of water drawn from a well that was almost dry.
<If It Bleeds>(King, Stephen) Your Highlight on page 345 | Location 4594-4596 2020-05-05 15:13:06
Everything was eventual.
<If It Bleeds>(King, Stephen) Your Highlight on page 356 | Location 4760-4761 2020-05-05 22:59:44
If she charges me from this distance, I’m either going to be dead or so badly hurt I’ll probably die anyway. If she doesn’t, I’m going to do brilliant work here. Brilliant.
<If It Bleeds>(King, Stephen) Your Highlight on page 362 | Location 4846-4848 2020-05-05 23:05:25
“Even the clearest part of what was in your mind gets lost in translation,”
<If It Bleeds>(King, Stephen) Your Highlight on page 365 | Location 4881-4881 2020-05-05 23:07:40
He supposed Franzen had had a point about the time before writing a novel actually began. It was a good time, because everything you saw and heard was possible grist for the mill. Everything was malleable. The mind could build a city, remodel it, then raze it, all while you were taking a shower or shaving or having a piss. Once you began, however, that changed.
<If It Bleeds>(King, Stephen) Your Highlight on page 367 | Location 4911-4913 2020-05-05 23:10:04
Reality was deep, and it was far. It held many secrets and went on forever.
<If It Bleeds>(King, Stephen) Your Highlight on page 370 | Location 4954-4954 2020-05-05 23:12:31
as a teacher and reader (they weren’t the same, but surely first cousins) he had a tendency to concentrate on theme, language, and symbolism rather than story,
<If It Bleeds>(King, Stephen) Your Highlight on page 383 | Location 5152-5153 2020-05-05 23:26:08
Do you know how many half-finished novels are stuck in desk drawers or filing cabinets? Millions.”
<If It Bleeds>(King, Stephen) Your Highlight on page 403 | Location 5444-5444 2020-05-05 23:54:05
I love Holly. It’s as simple as that. She was supposed to be a minor character in Mr. Mercedes, no more than a quirky walk-on. Instead, she stole my heart (and almost stole the book).
<If It Bleeds>(King, Stephen) Your Highlight on page 435 | Location 5865-5866 2020-05-06 00:22:17