Holly Quotes

“Gifts are fragile. You must never entrust yours to people who might break it.”
― Stephen King, Holly

“Holly knows this is how addicts think and behave: they rearrange the furniture of their lives to make room for their bad habits.”
― Stephen King, Holly

“She smiles. She dies. A world of words dies with her.”
― Stephen King, Holly

“Just when you think you’ve seen the worst human beings have to offer, you find out you’re wrong,”
― Stephen King, Holly

“Sometimes the universe throws you a rope. If it does, climb it. See what's at the top.”
― Stephen King, Holly

“I hate it when real events screw with my fiction, but that happens from time to time.”
― Stephen King, Holly

“Forty is when you have to stop kidding yourself that you’re still a young anything.”
― Stephen King, Holly

“holder-onners are never able to understand let-goers. They are tribes that just can’t understand each other.”
― Stephen King, Holly

“What you don’t want to do is what must be done first. Then it’s out of the way.”
― Stephen King, Holly

“Here is another relationship chilled by the fast-talking man in the red tie. It’s not fate and not coincidence”
― Stephen King, Holly

“The work matters. Nothing else. Not prizes. Not being published. Not being rich, famous, or both. Only the work.”
― Stephen King, Holly

“You have to start taking care of yourself when you’re forty. You have to maintain the machinery, because there’s no trade-in option.”
― Stephen King, Holly

“No Miss America, but she was a prom queen back in high school. And nobody dumped a bucket of blood on her, either.”
― Stephen King, Holly

“And nobody dumped a bucket of blood on her, either.”
― Stephen King, Holly

“If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.”
― Stephen King, Holly

“holder-onners are never able to understand let-goers. They are tribes that just can’t understand each other. Sort of like vaxxers and anti-vaxxers, Trumpers and Never Trumpers.”
― Stephen King, Holly

“She doesn’t want to watch anything on Netflix (Holly thinks most of their movies, even those with big budgets, are weirdly mediocre)”
― Stephen King, Holly

“The older she gets, the more the resilience of the young amazes her.”
― Stephen King, Holly

“And booster vaccines are coming. First for people with bad immune systems and people over sixty-five, but I’m hearing at school that by fall it’ll be everyone.’ ‘That sounds right,’ Holly says. ‘And bonus! Trump’s gone.’ Leaving behind a country at war with itself, Holly thinks. And who’s to say he won’t reappear in 2024? She thinks of Arnie’s promise from The Terminator: ‘I’ll be back.”
― Stephen King, Holly

“does anyone ever get complete closure? Especially from a parent?”
― Stephen King, Holly

“Old age is a time of casting away, which is bad enough, but it’s also a time of escalating indignities.”
― Stephen King, Holly

“my mother died of that fake flu, you gullible bitch.”
― Stephen King, Holly

“there’s no more exquisite torture than hope.”
― Stephen King, Holly

“On her drive back to the city, Holly is nagged by the thought of her Dollar General underwear, bought new but unwashed, and it comes to her that her mother really isn’t dead after all and won’t be until Holly herself dies.”
― Stephen King, Holly

“The only person unhappier than a writer whose expectations aren’t fulfilled is one whose dreams come true.”
― Stephen King, Holly

“TRISTIS PUELLA.”
― Stephen King, Holly

“He’d like to be in a doctor’s office, waiting for a proctological exam. He would like to be anywhere but here.”
― Stephen King, Holly

“She’s bundled up in a parka even though it’s still in the mid-fifties at eight o’clock, because she’s down to a hundred and ten pounds (her doctor routinely scolds her about her weight) and she feels the cold. Even more than the cold, she feels the damp. Yet she stays, because there’s a poem to be had tonight, if she can just get her fingers under its lid and open it up.”
― Stephen King, Holly

“You can't write well without a grasp of profanity and the ability to look at filth. To sometimes exalt filth.”
― Stephen King, Holly

“They watch TV and have their dessert, spooning up a mixture of raspberry sorbet and Peter Steinman’s brains.”
― Stephen King, Holly