SKELETON CREW Literature 1985. Written by Stephen King. | |||||
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1 | Bellis the Fornit | Quotes | Quotes | ||||||||
Bellis the Fornit Bellis the Fornit: You may wonder about long-term solutions. I assure you there are none. All wounds are mortal. Take what's given. You sometimes get a little slack in the rope but the rope always has an end. So what. Bless the slack and don't waste breath cursing the drop. A grateful heart knows that in the end we all swing. | |||||||||||
2 | David Drayton | Quotes | Quotes | ||||||||
David Drayton David Drayton: Having spoken, the doomsayer departs. | |||||||||||
3 | David Drayton | Quotes | Quotes | ||||||||
David Drayton David Drayton: The Bridgton Pharmacy was a crazy shambles. Paperbacks and magazines were everywhere. There was a Spider-Man comic and an Incredible Hulk almost at my feet, and without thinking, I picked them up and jammed them into my pocket for Billy. | |||||||||||
4 | David Drayton & Ollie Weeks | Quotes | Quotes | ||||||||
David Drayton & Ollie Weeks David Drayton: Ollie, let's go. And thank you. Ollie Weeks: I killer her. Damn if I didn't kill her. David Drayton: Yes. That's why I thanked you. Ollie Weeks: I wouldn't have shot her, David. Not if there had been any other way. David Drayton: Yeah. Ollie Weeks: You believe it? David Drayton: Yeah, I do. Ollie Weeks: Then let's go. | |||||||||||
5 | Fornit | Living Things | Animals | ||||||||
Fornit Luck elves that lived in author Reg Thorpe's typewriter. | |||||||||||
6 | Fornus | Matter | Substances | ||||||||
Fornus Good-luck dust that Fornits provide, the luck elves that lived in author Reg Thorpe's typewriter. | |||||||||||
7 | Garrish | Quotes | Quotes | ||||||||
Garrish Garrish: You either ate the world or the world ate you and it was okay either way. | |||||||||||
8 | Garrish | Quotes | Quotes | ||||||||
Garrish Garrish: God made the world in his image, and if you don't eat the world, the world eats you. | |||||||||||
9 | George Bruckner | Quotes | Quotes | ||||||||
George Bruckner George Bruckner: God isn't the only one that plays dirty. | |||||||||||
10 | Henry Wilson | Quotes | Quotes | ||||||||
Henry Wilson Henry Wilson (The Editor): Madness has to start somewhere. If this story's about anything - if events in own's life can ever be said to be about anything - then this is a story about the Genesis of insanity. Madness has to start somewhere, and it has to go somewhere. Like a road. Or a bullet from the barrel of a gun. | |||||||||||
11 | Homer Buckland | Quotes | Quotes | ||||||||
Homer Buckland Homer Buckland: There's a difference between having your leg pulled and getting it shook like a damn apple tree. | |||||||||||
12 | Jahoobies | Language | Sexual Jargon | ||||||||
Jahoobies Rocky's slang for breasts. | |||||||||||
13 | Mrs. Carmody | Quotes | Quotes | ||||||||
Mrs. Carmody Mrs. Carmody: Expiation! It's expiation we want to think about now! We have been scourged with whips and scorpions! We have been punished for delving into secrets forbidden by God of old! We have seen the obscenities of nightmare! The rock will not hide them, the dead tree gives no shelter! And how will it end? What will stop it? | |||||||||||
14 | Narrator | Quotes | Quotes | ||||||||
Narrator Narrator: "No, I'm going to do it," Deke said, going for his coat, and with a mixture of dismay and excitement, Randy noted Deke's grin-reckless and a little crazy. The two of them had been rooming together for three years now-the Jock and the Brain, Cisco and Pancho, Batman and Robin-and Randy recognized that grin. Deke wasn't kidding, he meant to do it. In his head, he was already halfway there. | |||||||||||
15 | Narrator | Quotes | Quotes | ||||||||
Narrator Narrator: LaVerne's panties were almost as transparent as her bra, the delta of her sex sculpted neatly in silk, each buttock a taut crescent. | |||||||||||
16 | Narrator | Quotes | Quotes | ||||||||
Narrator Narrator: I turned around. It was one of the truckers from the booth. He had blond stubble on his chin and there was a wooden kitchen match poking out of his mouth. He smelled of engine oil and looked like something out of a Steve Ditko drawing. | |||||||||||
17 | Operation Straw | Plans | Operations | ||||||||
Operation Straw Name for the first waterlift from the Martian ice-caps around 2045. | |||||||||||
18 | Reg Thorpe | Quotes | Quotes | ||||||||
Reg Thorpe Reg Thorpe: Fornit Some Fornus. | |||||||||||
19 | Richard Hagstrom | Quotes | Quotes | ||||||||
Richard Hagstrom Richard Hagstrom: I'm not going to kill him. I'm going to "delete" him. | |||||||||||
20 | Richard Pine | Quotes | Quotes | ||||||||
Richard Pine Richard Pine: They say you are what you eat, and if so, I haven't changed a bit. | |||||||||||
21 | Rudy Foggia | Quotes | Quotes | ||||||||
Rudy Foggia Rudy Foggia: It's eternity in there. | |||||||||||
22 | Shapiro & Rand | Quotes | Quotes | ||||||||
Shapiro & Rand Shapiro: What's this place like? Where's the ocean at the end of the fucking beach? Where's the lakes? Where's the nearest greenbelt? Which direction? Where does the beach end? Rand: End? Oh. I grok you. It never ends. No greenbelts, no ice caps. No oceans. This is a beach in search of an ocean, mate. Dunes and dunes and dunes, and they never end. | |||||||||||
23 | Spike Milligan | Criminals | Serial Killers | ||||||||
Spike Milligan Milkman / serial killer. | |||||||||||
24 | The Spoon Torture of the Heathen Chinee | Miscellaneous | Techniques | ||||||||
The Spoon Torture of the Heathen Chinee George's older brother Buddy's torture technique - he sat on top of him with a knee on each of George's shoulders and tapped a spoon in the middle of George's forehead until he about went crazy. | |||||||||||
25 | Untitled | Themes | Solo | ||||||||
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