Saturday, February 11, 2012

My favorite passage from Stephen King's novel 11/22/63

'For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we all secretly know this? It's a perfectly balanced mechanism of shouts and echoes pretending to be wheels and cogs, a dreamclock chiming beneath a mystery-glass we call life. Behind it? Below it and around it? Chaos, storms. Men with hammers, with knives, men with guns. Women who twist what they cannot dominate and belittle what they cannot understand. A universe of horror and loss surrounding a single lighted stage where mortals dance in defiance of the dark.' (p615-616)

(Thanks to BookQuoter and her site, which helped me find the quote in the book: http://www.athousandbookswithquotes.com/2012/01/202-112263.html