# Quote — Stephen King, Carrie

> ...am returning my contract to you at this time. I feel that I would kill myself before ever teaching again. Late at night I keep thinking: if I had only reached to that girl, if only, if only...

- Author: [Stephen King](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king.md)
- Book: [Carrie](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/carrie.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carrie_(novel)#Part_3:_Wreckage) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/carrie/am-returning-my-contract

## More from this book

> On the surface, all the girls in the shower room were shocked, thrilled, ashamed, or simply glad that the White bitch had taken it in the mouth again. Some of them might also have claimed surprise, but of course their claim was untrue.

p. 4 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/carrie/on-the-surface.md)

> A week after the tornado of '54 had cut its path of death and destruction through Worcester, the air was filled with the sound of hammers, the smell of new timber, and a feeling of optimism and human resilience. There is none of that in Chamberlain this fall. the main road has been cleared of rubble and that is about the extent of it. The faces that you meet are full of dull hopelessness.

p. 298 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/carrie/a-week-after.md)

> But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutterball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/carrie/but-sorry-is-the.md)