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The Body

Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King’s timeless novella “The Body”—originally published in his 1982 short story collection Different Seasons, and adapted into the

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“Words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out.”

— Stephen King, goodreads.com

Tagged: relationships & love, tell people how you feel, Honesty, Speak Up For Yourself, be honest

“Love isn’t soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.”

— Stephen King, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Complicated, difficult, Effort

“The most important things are the hardest to say because words diminish them.”

— Stephen King, amazon.com

Tagged: Words Are Important, Words Are Not Enough

“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important th…”

— Stephen King, amazon.com

Tagged: Important things, Fear, Meaning, Secrets, Unsaid Things

“Love isn’t soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.”

— Stephen King, amazon.com

Tagged: Love (The Concept), Love, Metaphors

“Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it in our mind. It can be a terribly keen blade, not just a sickness in metaphor but in fact as well. It can change the way one looks at the world; the faces one sees i…”

— Stephen King, amazon.com

Tagged: Homesick, sickness, Home

“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, did you?”

— Stephen King, amazon.com

Tagged: Friends, Childhood, Friendship

“Speech destroys the function of love, I think-that's a hell of a thing for a writer to say, I guess, but I believe it to be true. If you speak to tell a deer you mean it no harm, it glides away with a single flip of its tail. Love has teeth; they bite; the wounds never close. No word, no combination…”

— Stephen King, amazon.com

Tagged: writer, Words, Language, Love

“I sometimes look at this typewriter and wonder when it's going to run out of good words. I don't want that to happen.”

— Stephen King, amazon.com

Tagged: writer, Writing, Words

“The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.”

— Stephen King, amazon.com

Tagged: Words, Language, Communication

“Friends come in and out of your life like busboys a a restaurant, did you ever notice that?”

— Stephen King, amazon.com

Tagged: Friends, Friendship, Leaving, old friends