

“If you're a sailor, best not know how to swim. Swimming only prolongs the inevitable—if the sea wants you and your time has come.”
― Tai-Pan
― Tai-Pan

“Love didn’t grow very well in a place where there was only fear, just as plants didn’t grow very well in a place where it was always dark.”
― The Stand
― The Stand

“The redundancy of flesh, he thinks, the helplessness of meat, how can we conjure spirit from a bone?”
― The North Water
― The North Water

“In his heart, hope—that indestructible weed of the human heart—had begun to bloom again.”
― The Stand
― The Stand

“He found that man needs affection, that life without a warming love is but a dry wheel, creaking and grating as it turns.”
― The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
― The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
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