The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge.
Stephen King – The Shining
Healing Tears’ Power
H
Real Monsters Within
R
Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
Stephen King – The Shining
Threatening Love
T
Wendy? Darling. Light of my life. I’m not gonna hurt ya. I’m just going to bash your brains in.
Stephen King – The Shining
Inhuman Place Effects
I
This inhuman place makes human monsters.
Stephen King – The Shining
Violent Urges
V
The thought rose from nowhere, naked and unadorned. The urge to tumble her out of bed, naked, bewildered, just beginning to scream: to ride her down to the floor, to pummel her as she screamed and begged.
Stephen King – The Shining
Writer’s Limitations
W
He was a writer, damn it. Not a lay therapist. Why should he know how to handle every goddamned psychological situation?
Stephen King – The Shining
Unreal Monsters as Symbols
U
We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.
Stephen King – The Shining
Sharing Habits
S
A man who can’t bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.
Stephen King – The Shining
Belief in God
B
God, he thought, almost laughing at himself. To believe in God is to believe in the ridiculous.
Stephen King – The Shining