Pet Sematary Quotes

″...dead is better.”

“Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.”

“It’s like many other things in life, Ellie. You keep on the path and all’s well. You get off it and the next thing you know you’re lost if you’re not lucky.”

“By nine o’clock the movers were gone. Ellie and Gage, both exhausted. were sleeping in their new rooms, Gage in his crib, Ellie on a mattress on the floor surrounded by a foothill of boxes--her billions of Crayolas, whole broken, and blunted; her Sesame Street posters; her picture books; her clothes; heaven knew what else.”

“The old sleep poorly. Perhaps they stand watch.”

“Louis Creed, who had lost his father at three and who had never known a grandfather, never expected to find a father as he entered his middle age, but that was exactly what happened.”

“Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That’s what makes them children.”

“That lesson suggests that in the end, we can only find peace in our human lives by accepting the will of the universe.”

“Dead fields under a November sky, scattered rose petals brown and turning up at the edges, empty pools scummed with algae, rot, decomposition, dust... ”

“In Louis Creed’s memory that one moment always held a magical quality--partly, perhaps, because it really was magical, but mostly because the rest f the evening was so wild. In the next three hours, neither peace nor magic made an appearance.”

“Louis struggled with his temper and went silently back to the wagon. The keys were gone, but the first-aid kit was still in the glove compartment. He got it and came back. When Ellie saw it, she began to scream louder than ever.”

“I don’t think children ever forget the lies their parents tell them.”

“Rachel stopped crying abruptly. She sat up. “is that--” “That’s it,” Louis said. He felt apprehensive--no, he felt scared. In fact he felt terrified. He had mortgaged twelve years of their lives for this; it wouldn’t be paid off until Eileen was seventeen”

“...there is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.”

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

“Louis himself felt a little like crying. A wild but not unattractive idea suddenly came to him...”

“Beyond the house was a large field for the children to play in, and beyond the field were woods that went on damn near forever.”

“The soil of a man’s heart is stonier, he thought, and the wind sang its bitter black song, and not so many miles distant...”

“Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of them who never grew old by the fire.”

“We either learn to accept or we end up writing letters home with crayons.”