# Quote — Stephen King, The Langoliers

> …of the langoliers, who obviously did not know, they were lurking everywhere, behind every bush and tree, in every shadow, just over the horizon… The langoliers had come for all the foolish, lazy people, just as his father had always said they would.

- Author: [Stephen King](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king.md)
- Book: [The Langoliers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/the-langoliers.md)
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## More from this book

> 'I can always feel the light. It's like heat inside my head.'

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> 'Second, people think better when their stomachs are full.' He shrugged. 'It's just a law of nature.'

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> It's like glimpsing a beautiful woman for just a moment in the back seat of a limousine - she looks even more beautiful than she really is because you know she's not yours, can never be yours.

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