-Mike Noonan
"Horn Broken, Watch for Finger"
-Buddy Jellison's Cafe
"'You funny little man,' Said Strickland."
-Mike Noonan's book.
"Give me that, it's my dust catcher!"
-Jo Noonan, in Mike's dream.
"I've dreamt again of Manderley."
-Mike Noonan
"Hey Whoremaster! Where's your whore?"
-Max Devore
"Does her cunt suck?"
-Max Devore
"I lost the rest as the whole world exploded into an orgasm so deep and so strong i thought it might tear me apart. I screamed- i had to- and out on the lake, a loon screamed back."
-Mike Noonan
"I taggled my own quartermack!"
-Kyra Devore
"This ain't nothin' but a barn dance, sugar! This ain't nothin' but a round and round!"
-Sara Tidwell
"'Kia,' I said. 'Season's beginning.' But that made me feel like crying again, so i got out of the car and slammed the door hard behind me, as if i could keep the sadness inside that way."
-Mike Noonan
"'Oh God, i love this one,' Mattie cried. The frisbee came to her. She caught it, dropped it, stepped on it as if it were a hot red spot falling on a nightclub stage, and began to shake."
-Mike Noonan
"Women are sexy when they dance- incredibly sexy- but that wasn't what i reacted to, or how i reacted."
-Mike Noonan
"I've put down my scrivener's pen. These days i prefer not to."
-Mike Noonan
-Ed Deepneau
"They used to call me Joe Wise, but now i'm older and Wyzer!"
-Joe Wyzer
"To Lois, Ralph looked as if he had gone to sleep. And, she saw, the long white scar on his right forearm was gone."
-Closing Line
-Thad Beaumont
"People's dreams- their real dreams, as opposed to those hallucinations of sleep which come or not, just as they will- end at different times."
-The Dark Half
"Behind him, Thad Beaumont slowly raised his hands and placed them over his face. He stood there like that for a long time."
-Closing line
-Dolores Claiborne
"I guess i want to say two more things, Nancy, before you hit the STOP button on that rig of yours. In the end, it's the bitches of the world who abide...and as for the dust bunnies: frigya!"
-Dolores Claiborne
"Was never a kid alive who didn't mine a little green gold outta their pump every now and again."
-Dolores Claiborne
-Written on a mug in Andy's dream
"The brain is a muscle that can move the world."
-Andy's dream
"She lights fires..."
-Firestarter
"'The black horse,' he said thickly. It was coming. No...no. It wasn't coming; it was here. Thud...
-Andy's headaches
"'You're mad,' Cap whispered. 'How right you are,' Rainbird said, and laughed."
-Cap and Rainbird's conversation.
"Charlie smiled. It was the smile that had so dazzled the librarian. 'Yes,' she said. 'I've been waiting for along time.'"
-Closing line.
-Opening pages
"'We are going to be very jappy here,' she said, and although a bolt of horror ripped into his heart, Paul still did not open his eyes."
-Misery
"Now i must rinse."
-Annie Wilkes
"Can you?"
-Paulie's past
"Oh, you're fucking crazy.
You sure?
No. He was no longer sure. Not about anything. With one exception: his whole life had hinged and continued to hinge on Misery"
-Paul Sheldon
"'But she is, after all, only a piece of stone,' Ian remonstrated.
'Yes, Boss Ian,' Hezekiah agreed. 'Dat what give her her power.'"
-Part IV: Godess. Misery's Return
"He could. He could.
So, in gratitude and in terror, he did. The hole opened and Paul stared through at what was there, unaware that his fingers were picking up speed, unaware that his aching legs were in the same city but fifty blocks away, unaware that he was weeping as he wrote."
-Closing paragraph.
-Jud Crandall
Many thanks!