'Salem's Lot Quotes

And that was why New York—or someplace—was imperative. In the end you always crashed against the unspoken barricades of their love, like the walls of a padded cell. (2.187)

"Of such inconsequential beginnings dynasties are begun," he said, and although it was a joking throwaway remark, it hung oddly in the air, like prophecy spoken in jest. (2.8)

Nothing too nasty could happen in such a nice little town. Not there. (2.150)

I'll tell Roy he fell off the changing table, she thought. He'll believe that. Oh God, let him believe that. (3.44)

She was not a believer in love at first sight, although she did believe that instant lust (going under the more innocent name of infatuation) occurred frequently. (2.271)

What was he doing, coming back to a town where he had lives for four years as a boy, trying to recapture something that was irrevocably lost? What magic could he expect to recapture by walking road...

Some of them were turned off by his job, and Mike found this honestly hard to understand. It was pleasant work, there was no boss always looking over your shoulder, and the work was in the open air...

"He says there are strange things in the world. Forty years ago, a peasant from El Graniones brought him a lizard that screamed as though it were a woman." (Preface.46)