“Oh, about beer I never lie,’ Crandall said. ‘A man who lies about beer makes enemies.”

“I work until beer o'clock.”

“Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.”

“The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen”

“The soil of a man's heart is stonier [...] A man grows what he can... and he tends it" - Jud Crandall, Chapter 22 (near end) Pet Sematary”

“He ran back and I watched him go, legs pumping, soles of his zori showing. I love him.It's his face and sometimes the way his eyes turn up to mine that make me feel as ifthings are really okay. It's a lie, of course-things are not okay and never have been-butmy kid makes me believe the lie.”

“Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up”