Оно. Том 2

Seeing themselves and their neighbors on TV - that would make it real. It would give them a place from which to grasp this terrible, ungraspable thing.

He would kill them all, his tormentors, and then those feelings - that he was losing his grip, that he was coming inexorably to a larger world he would not be able to dominate as he had dominated the playyard at Derry Elementary, that in the wider world the fat-boy and the nigger and the stuttering freak might somehow grow larger while he somehow only grew older - would be gone.

I think it was the first real pain I ever felt in my life, he would tell the others. It wasn't what I thought it would be at all. It didn't put an end to me as a person. I think . . . it gave me a basis for comparison, finding out you could still exist inside the pain, in spite of the pain.

And almost idly, in a kind of side-thought, Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

when the picture-taking starts, the story is over.

Going on intuition is like picking up a beat and dancing to it.

No one at the table moved at all for perhaps five seconds, and Bill was reminded of auctions he had attended where the price on an item suddenly soared into the stratosphere and those who didn't want to bid anymore almost literally played statues; one was afraid to scratch an itch or wave a fly off the end of one's nose for fear the auctioneer would take it for another five grand or twenty-five.

Man, he had hated it when Richie called him Eds . . . but he had sort of liked it, too. The way he thought Ben Hanscom got to like Richie calling him Haystack. It was something . . . like a secret name. A secret identity. A way to be people that had nothing to do with their parents' fears, hopes, constant demands.

My daddy used to tell me that God loved rocks, houseflies, weeds, and poor people above all the rest of His creations, and that's why He made so many of them.

You know, it's sort of interesting - I didn't know it was possible for a man to become as frightened as I have become since the Adrian Mellon business and still live, let alone function.

My whole pleasant life has been nothing but the eye of some storm I don't understand.

Too many places and too many people seem to have the deep-down crazies.

Подсознательное? Да, что-то такое было там, в глубине, все так, но Билл считал, что люди придают слишком много значения этой функции мозга, которая, вероятно, представляет собой психологический эквивалент слез в глазах при попадании в них пыли или же газов, которые отходят через час-полтора после очень уж плотного обеда.

"If I was them, I wouldn't bother paying to see a couple of horror movies," Richie said. "I'd just stay home and look in a mirror. Save some bread."

Любовь – вот что имеет значение, волнение.., когда всегда хочется и никогда не время.

...Дети лучше себя чувствовали рядом со смертью, с большой легкостью встраивали в свою жизнь необъяснимое. <...>В десять лет внезапное столкновение с прекрасным или ужасным не мешало съесть за ленчем лишний чиз-дог или два.

Но иногда человек проводит жизнь, не доверяя другим и не вызывая доверия у них, одинокий (или потерянный), то есть сам по себе, он может найти друга или возлюбленного и жить для этого человека так же, как собака живет для своего хозяина.