Cover of The Stand, by Stephen King.

The Stand, by Stephen King (1978)

Highlights

25

Love is what moves the world, I’ve always thought…it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down…bring them low…and make them crawl…

44

No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don’t.

44

You couldn’t not like someone who liked the guitar.

44

If we don’t have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.

50

A person can’t change all at once.

55

And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you’re inside.

59

God don’t lay on no bribes, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will.

61

It was things like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, he thought, that made you believe the world was maybe just as well off destroyed.

67

Love didn’t grow very well in a place where there was only fear

78

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there…and still on your feet.