"The Shining" Quotes
A family's winter caretaking job at a haunted hotel takes a sinister turn as the father's psychic abilities are awakened, and he becomes a threat to his own family.
horror | 464 pages | Published in 2008
Quotes
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
You can't make a sow's ear out of a silk purse. Don't want to, either.
The world’s a hard place, Danny. It don’t care. It don’t hate you and me, but it don’t love us, either.
You and I both know that people can talk of being ‘asleep’ or ‘awake’ when they’re actually asleep and dreaming, and they can talk of being ‘asleep’ when they’re awake.
God, how I love this place.
The only way to deal with it is to accept that sometimes, shit happens.
The truth is, it's not the idea of being alone that frightens me. It's the idea of not being alone.
You’re scared of yourself, aren’t you? Why, you’re not a bit afraid of the old hotel, are you? It’s yourself you’re scared of, and it’s yourself you hate.
I think that sometimes you can lose something of yourself or something you should have had.
You know, Doc, when something happens, it can leave a trace of itself behind. Say like, if someone burns toast. Well, maybe things that happen leave other kinds of traces behind. Not things anyone can notice, but things that get recorded in the big computer of the universe.
