Favorite Quotes from The stand

[TheHardcase]

The Stand is just so epic, and yes there are some slow parts, but taken as a whole, it's incredible. It is definitely my favorite King book unless you want to count the Dark Tower as one book with 7 parts.

I wholeheartedly agree. The depth of characterization and the way the story was crafted is amazing. It truly is an absolute masterpiece. As for my favorite quote. . .

Glenn Bateman: "At the end of all rationalism, the mass grave."

In fact, that entire exchange between Glenn and Frannie in the wake of Mother Abigail's disappearance was just amazing in the way it encapsulated what the Free Zone had to deal with in those early days.

The Stand is simply an incredible story, and the fact that I've returned to it six times over the past eighteen years is testament enough to this fact. I usually don't give even the most superlative fiction more than a second look. The Stand is in a class by itself.

[Olivia Dunham]

The first scene with Harold and Nadine-

"He looked at her shamefacedly, embarrassed at the hair-trigger way he had gone off. But she was only smiling at him with those calm, dark eyes that seemed to know everything, the eyes of a very young girl in a Victorian painting. A girl who knows too much, perhaps about her father."

[TheHardcase]

"He's come out the other side. That was it. No one call tell what goes on between the person you are and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just. . . come out the other side. Or you don't."

Someone knew the 12 steps very well in this book. They're all over it.

[tedb]

"they said, wouldn't say "****" if he had a mouthful. "

I use this saying quite a bit, but I'm a middle school teacher, so I modify it: "Wouldn't say beans if he had a mouthful"

"The Stand" has always been my favorite of Mr. King's. I usually re-read it each spring, and worry if a spring cold catches me. One of my favorite scenes is when the car is rolling down East 14th street in Des Moines, Iowa, past Grand View Jr. College. (it's Grand View University, now) I now these streets, I live here and travel down this busy street at least once a week. I am always reminded of this novel.

Maybe one of the reasons I so thoroughly enjoy this book is because of the references to my hometown.

ted

[kzilla689]

I like the part when the story is told through the dog (Kojak) when he travels to Nebraska and fights with every little strength he has with the dark man's wolves. I also thought the part when trashcan man finally gets away from the kid and again the dark man's wolves attack and kill him.