stop now before i kill you
a word to the wise from your friend
PENNYWISE
Stephen King
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January embers.
My heart burns there, too.
-Stephen King, I...
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You can't...
DEYTH BANGER Want a balloon?
STEPHEN KING Stephen King started to read comics first, I started to watch films and little reading books...Now e...
DEYTH BANGER Though you are three times more beautiful than angels,
Though you are the sister of the river w...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive yo...
STEPHEN KING (BEWARE)
Stephen King interviews and speeches are incrediable very powerful.
DEYTH BANGER Here's a funny question:
What is your favorite word?
Think about it—maybe it...
VERA NAZARIAN Play to your strengths."
"I haven’t got any," said Harry, before he could stop himself....
J.K. ROWLING I did have a friend,' I said.
'And your friend trespassed upon you,' the Wally replied.
ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN A single word can brighten the face
of one who knows the value of words.
Ripened in silenc...
YUNUS EMRE I'd rather not have him kill you right now.
-Cenity to Draco Malfoy
From House-ist, ...
CENITY You know who you are, he said-
that intimidates boys but oneday a man will come along and valu...
NIKKI ROWE I will never hurt you.
I will always help you.
If you are hungry
Ill give you my food...
ORSON SCOTT CARD A Gift for You
I send you...
The gift of a letter from your wise self. This is the p...
S.A.R.K. Embrace nothing:
If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha.
If you meet your father, kill yo...
BUDDHA Embrace nothing:
If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha.
If you meet your father, kill yo...
GAUTAMA SIDDHARTA JAMIE'S SONG 'KILL ME':
In the darkness of the night,
you come to me to fight.
...
NEHA YAZMIN Now We Think
Now we think
as we fuck
this nut
might kill us.
There m...
ESSEX HEMPHILL A son says to his Mother: "Mother, today I fought with my friend."
His Mother says: "Why did yo...
VERONICA ROTH Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you;
Be true to your word and your work and your ...
JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY With a changing key,
you unlock the house where
the snow of what’s silenced drifts.
PAUL CELAN You're paid to stop a bullet.
It's a soldier's job, they say.
And so you stop your bullet, E. Y. HARBURG If your job is to kill us, why didn’t you kill me?” I ask.
He answers without hesitating, a...
RICK YANCEY Let me get it straight. Your father was king. You were his only son. Your father dies. You are of ag...
TOM STOPPARD The Eleven king looked sternly upon Thorin, when he was brought before him, and asked him many quest...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN 'You can't stop me. Your word voodoo, it doesn't work on me. Right? So how do you think you're goin...
MAX BARRY I am your moon and your moonlight too
I am your flower garden and your water too
I have co...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI I’m now requesting you refrain from calling me this early in the morning, before I’ve had a chan...
RICHARD FINNEY You are the king no doubt, but in one respect,
at least, I am your equal: the right to reply. ROBERT FAGLES One word can change your life forever.
I love you
I hate you
Think about ...
ALAN MACMILLAN ORR I have become intoxicated again.
You are such a potent wine, my friend.
To escape your wit...
KAMAND KOJOURI The aching in my chest
isn't because I miss you,
it's realizing that you have
becom...
TANZY SAYADI You are my king. You could command me to stop seeing her."
Niall turned his gaze to Irial...
MELISSA MARR Do me a favor, doc?"
"Anything, Captain."
"Stop italicizing the word 'C...
HOWARD TAYLER Stop a minute and listen. I know I'm asking the impossible from you, but for once in your life, shut...
SHERRILYN KENYON HARRY: Voldemort is going to kill my mum and dad — and there’s nothing I can do to stop him.
J.K. ROWLING Ow. Stop that. It hurts my brain.
Isn't your brain distributed through your entire body?<...
HOWARD TAYLER She soon says, "You're my best friend, Ed."
You can kill a man with those words.
No gun. MARKUS ZUSAK You said to lean on your arm
And I am leaning
You said to trust in your love
And I a...
MAYA ANGELOU Haven't laughed this hard in a long time,
I better stop now before I start crying.
Go off to...
ELLIOTT SMITH Well, now,
if little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you little by little...
PABLE NERUDA If you would keep your secret from an enemy,
tell it not to a friend.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I will kill you, I swear it!
I will kill you until you're dead!
~Switzerland
HETALIA Once in Persia reigned a king
Who upon his signet ring
Graved a maxim true and wise,
Which ...
THEODORE TILTON The Voice
There is a voice inside of you
That whispers all day long,
"I feel th...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Something about you caught me by surprise
Though I always knew you’d be my demise.
R.S. GREY Ah, yes! I wrote the 'Purple Cow'
I'm sorry, now, I wrote it!
But I can tell you anyhow, FRANK GELETT BURGESS Stop it.
Do not feel safe with him. The Stockholm Syndrome is not your friend.
J.R. WARD My pipe is out, my glass is dry;
My fire is almost ashes too;
But once again, before you go, ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Dear Samson,
I put your hair
in a jar
by the pear tree
near the well.
I bee...
CAROLE C. GREGORY "There Is A Voice Inside Of You
That Whispers All Day Long,
"I Feel That This Is Right For M...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN I'll give you something to cry about!!
Hell, no need to get up I’m doing a good job of bawli...
NEIL LECKMAN For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?
Seek him always wit...
KAHLIL GIBRAN This two quotes make me laugh
"Andre Linoge: Born in lust, turn to dust. Born in sin, COME ON I...
DEYTH BANGER You are Joseph the dreamer of dreams, dear Jude.
And a tragic Don Quixote. And sometimes you ar...
THOMAS HARDY I loved my friend
He went away from me
There's nothing more to say
The poem ends,
LANGSTON HUGHES My friend once told me
she liked this guy because of his hands
And I found it absurd that ...
CAROL SHLYAKHOVA The friend is a human Eden
But Eden is so easily lost
When you choose, choose wisely
...
GENIEVE DAWKINS Life is in Fate's hands now. You made your choice to stay... it's too late to change that, so stop a...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time) Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time)
Me plus you. (Imma ...
JUSTIN BIEBER 6 Ways To Give Your Mind A Break:
1. Stop stressing
2. Stop worrying
3. Give re...
GERMANY KENT For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his...
STEPHEN KING Your eyes are like heavy rain
falling from pregnant clouds.
With one glance, you washed ...
KAMAND KOJOURI Nick smiled. “I kind of like the irony.”
“Jesus, you are such a nerd.” Gabriel flung th...
BRIGID KEMMERER If I'm a bad person, you don't like me
Well I guess I'll make my own way
It's a circle
HAYLEY WILLIAMS A wise woman has already a rite
Where she knows right from left.
She usually writes when s...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES I could simply
kill you now,
get it over with,
who would
know the difference...
BARBARA BLATNER Basketball Rule #5
When
you stop
playing
your game
you've already
los...
KWAME ALEXANDER You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees
Excerpt from To Kiss a ...
GRACE WILLOWS Where are you and I'm so sorry
I cannot sleep, I cannot dream tonight
I need somebody and al...
BLINK 182 My dear,
Find what you love and let it kill you.
Let it drain you of your all. Let it clin...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I loved my friend
He went away from me
There's nothing more to say
The poem ends soft as it...
LANGSTON HUGHES It’s just words. How can words be dangerous?”
“You have a lot to learn about the world, b...
CATHERINE RYAN HYDE It's a secret code," said Calvin. "Girls are not not like boys. If a boy wants to kill you, he says ...
LENORE LOOK Thanks from keeping me from being a liar," said Nikolai.
"What?"
"About your having diarrh...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Advice for the wise:
You"d better bite your tongue
Rather than cast a spell wrong.
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES On the path to Conquer the throne,
some of your pawns must die...
If your eyes aim t...
AAMIR SARFRAZ (AAMIR RAJPUT KHAN) Our Great King Ferdinand joined the warring masses,
And to honor him we pass him as we run to a...
MEGAN FRAZER BLAKEMORE REMEMBER YOUR GREATNESS
Before you were born,
And were still too tiny for
The h...
SUZY KASSEM If you fishin' for a friend you just gon' catch and release, then I ain't got no desire to be your f...
RON HALL Your half empty..
A broken glass,
I love you can sound so beautiful
BRITTANY WILLIAMS Why’d you call, boy? What did you want from me?"
"The company of a friend, I think."
"Al...
JAMES SALLIS As you set out on your journey to Ithaca,
pray that your journey be a long one,
filled wit...
BARRY B. POWELL Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams,
Now I wash the gum from your eyes,
You...
WALT WHITMAN If you fatally kill fate,
your life sentence will be
to steer the reins of choice.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN I tried to warn you,
But girls never listen.
Got your innocence insured?
...
WENDY HIGGINS I threw away my phone
I thought that you should know
I'd throw away my home
If I had som...
ASHLEE SIMPSON North," said the face beneath the sheet. "I belong to the National Association of Broadcasting Emplo...
ANDREW KLAVAN I – the eternal idea of oneness, have said this before – and now in the century 21st, say once a...
ABHIJIT NASKAR To the most inconsiderate asshole of a friend,
I’m writing you this letter because I know tha...
CECELIA AHERN He grunted. 'You have the courage of a warrior.'
I watched him turn away and gather the clothes...
ALISON GOODMAN I am your Prince and you will marry me," Humperdinck said.
Buttercup whispered, "I am your serv...
WILLIAM GOLDMAN THE NAKED HEART
From womb to tomb,
There came and went -
Only you.
Poor or...
SUZY KASSEM Last night I had a revelation
Somehow I have to make you pay
It's all about manipulation
RED DELICIOUS We shall not sip from the same glass,
No water for us, or sweet wine;
We’ll not embrace ...
ANNA AHKMATOVA After a moment, his father looked up from the list and surveyed her. "Well done, Champion. Well done...
SARAH J. MAAS It’s midnight!” he says frantically, slapping at the door. “Call her. Call your roommate!” COLLEEN HOOVER If you can't turn off your thoughts, who cares how soft your pillow is?"
- David King
ROBERT LIPARULO ...now open your mind by closing your eyes
see the unseen world within you which lies
MUNIA KHAN
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January embers
My heart burns there, too.
STEPHEN KING It took me twenty years of living with my father to accept the idea that being good could be good en...
STEPHEN KING When all else fails, give up and go to the library.
STEPHEN KING Party lights hang over the street, yellow and red and green. Sadie stumbles over someone’s chair, ...
STEPHEN KING Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather?"
He stared at me, baffle...
STEPHEN KING Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic...
STEPHEN KING I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost alw...
STEPHEN KING Without his even being aware that it was happening, Paul's face rearranged itself into the expressio...
STEPHEN KING I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that s...
STEPHEN KING There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the c...
STEPHEN KING Life is like Friday on a soap opera. It gives you the illusion that everything is going to wrap up, ...
STEPHEN KING Love leaves scars.
STEPHEN KING When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the tim...
STEPHEN KING The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
STEPHEN KING Sometimes [...] real love is silent as well as blind.
STEPHEN KING He killed them with their love
STEPHEN KING Home is where they want you to stay longer.
STEPHEN KING For God’s sake, Larry, grow up. Develop a little self-righteousness. A lot of that is an ugly thin...
STEPHEN KING He was a poet who sometimes taught Free University classes or travelled in the western states of Uta...
STEPHEN KING She's the Queen Bitch of Castle Hell. If you mess with her, she'll eat you alive.
STEPHEN KING When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invaria...
STEPHEN KING Get busy living or get busy dying.
STEPHEN KING Good books are for consideration after, too.
STEPHEN KING And didn't they say that, although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought the beast back?
STEPHEN KING Churchbells were calling the faithful to worship, and outside it was a beautiful day
STEPHEN KING I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let h...
STEPHEN KING I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, a...
STEPHEN KING