# Quote — Stephen King, Carrie

> Yet although she had swum and she had laughed when they ducked her (until she couldn't get her head up any more and they kept doing it and she got panicky and began to scream) and had tried to take part in the camp's activities, a thousand practical jokes had been played on ol' prayin' Carrie and she had come home on the bus a week early, her eyes red and socketed from weeping, to be picked up by Momma at the station, and Momma had told her grimly that she should treasure the memory of her scourging as proof that Momma knew, that Momma was right, that the only hope of safety and salvation was inside the red circle. 'For straight is the gate', Momma said grimly in the taxi and at home she had sent Carrie to the closet for six hours.

- Author: [Stephen King](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king.md)
- Book: [Carrie](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/carrie.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/carrie/yet-although-she

## 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.

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