Doctor Sleep Best Movie Quotes – ‘The world’s a hungry place.’

Dick Hallorann: [Hallorann spirit visits Dan] Last time I saw you, you was at the bottom. You look better now.
Dan Torrance: Why are you here?
Dick Hallorann: I’m here because it all comes around.

Dick Hallorann: [referring to the True Knot] You listen, son. It hurts to be here, so I’ll only say it once. These empty devils ever found you when you was a tyke, if they’d even sniffed you, you’d be long dead. They’re on the land like a cancer on the skin. Once, they rode camels in the desert. Once, they drove caravans across Eastern Europe. They eat screams, and drink pain, and they’ve noticed that little girl. They might kill her, might turn her, or might keep her till she’s all used up, and that’d be worst of all. You can’t let them.
Dan Torrance: Why me?
Dick Hallorann: Because she found you. Because she showed up. Hell, Doc, why me? You just walked on into my kitchen one day, and I’m still on the hook.

Dan Torrance: [referring to helping Abra] What the hell am I supposed to do?
Dick Hallorann: Get her what she asked for. You won’t see me again, Doc. This is my last dream. It seems to me you grew up fine, son, but you still owe a debt. Pay it.

Rose The Hat: [after she infiltrates Abra’s mind, but Abra sets an imaginary trap] She was in my head!
Crow Daddy: What?
Rose The Hat: Stealing!
Crow Daddy: What does she know?
Rose The Hat: I don’t know. I don’t know.

Snakebite Andi: [as they find Grandpa Flick dying of starvation] I thought we lived forever.
Rose The Hat: Did someone promise you that, Andi? Did someone say you’re immortal? I said, “Live long, eat well.” We can live long, very long. And we do, most of us. But we haven’t been eating well. Not for a long time.

Dan Torrance: [referring to Overlook] When I was a kid, younger than you, I bumped into something like these things that ate like they do. Only it wasn’t a person, it was a place. They closed it down after, and let it rot. But the things that lived there, they… Don’t go poking around in there again.
Abra Stone: Okay, I won’t. I promise.

Billy Freeman: [after Dan tells him about the True Knot and Abra] I got to tell you, Danno, I don’t know whether I hope you’re right or wrong about this. I mean, if you’re wrong, my friend is crazy. I mean, full-blown, mental breakdown, imaginary monsters killing imaginary kids, bonkers. But, you know, I can work with that. If you’re right though.
Dan Torrance: I know. It’s much worse.

Abra Stone: [as Dan and Billy are killing the members of the True Knot] You deserve it. All of you.

Abra Stone: [after Crow abducts and drugs her to suppress her powers, and kills Dave] My dad? What happened to my dad?
Crow Daddy: A lot of good people killed today. A lot of good people. I’d love to tell you someone will pay, some kind of justice raining down on the sad events today, but it don’t work like that. We were always going to have you. Some of my people are dead. Some of yours are dead. Outcome didn’t change, though. Think on that a minute. The outcome didn’t change. So, their deaths, all of them, just a waste. A waste you brought on to us all, young lady. For what?
Abra Stone: [sobbing softly] Please hear me.
Crow Daddy: Ain’t nobody hearing you. Might as well calm down and enjoy the ride. Like I said, outcome hasn’t changed.

Crow Daddy: [after Abra lets Dan use his powers to posses] I don’t suppose Rose will be happy about any of this. And when that woman gets mad, well, it seems to me you know enough to know you might want to sit this one out. Count your blessings. Go on your way. What’s so funny, friend?
Abra Stone: Well, it’s just arrogance. It’s arrogance, really. But it makes sense, if you think you’re going to live forever. Stands to reason. Of course you wouldn’t wear your seatbelt.
[Dan uses his powers to manipulate Crow into crashing his car, killing him]

Dan Torrance: [referring to Rose] She’s going to keep coming.
Abra Stone: I know.
Dan Torrance: Always. This only ends if we end it, and I don’t think we can beat her. Not by ourselves.

Dan Torrance: [referring to the Overlook] There’s a place. A place that’s dangerous for people like us.
Abra Stone: The place you told me about? The hungry place?
Dan Torrance: Yeah, that’s right.
Abra Stone: If it’s so dangerous, why would we go there?
Dan Torrance: Well, if it’s dangerous for people like us, I expect it’s dangerous for people like her. Maybe even more so.
Abra Stone: Good.

Dan Torrance: [enters the Overlook and the lights come on] Wakey-wakey.

The Bartender: [as Dan sees ghostly bartender resembling Jack Torrance] I apologize, Mr. Torrance. I don’t know where everyone is, but it’ll pick up.
Dan Torrance: Oh, I know where they are. And you’re right, it’ll pick up.
The Bartender: If you don’t mind my saying, Mr. Torrance, you seem put upon.
Dan Torrance: Put upon?
The Bartender: Ain’t that the way. Man just living his life, trying to do his work. He gets put upon. Pulled into other people’s problems. I see it all the time, if you don’t mind my saying.

Dan Torrance: [to Jack “the bartender”, referring to his mom, Wendy] I was twenty when she died. And back then, I saw when someone was going to die. I saw flies. Black flies. Death flies, I called them, circling people’s faces. And in those last weeks, she was covered. Her whole face. I could barely see her eyes. And I tried to comfort her, but I could hardly look at her. And she saw that. She just lay there dying, with her son who couldn’t look at her.

The Bartender: I think you’ve mistaken me for someone else. I’m just a bartender.
Dan Torrance: Oh, yeah? Just Lloyd the bartender, pouring joy at the Overlook Hotel.
The Bartender: I’ll pour whatever you like, Mr. Torrance.
Dan Torrance: Oh, dad. This drink will cost an awful lot.
The Bartender: Your money is no good here. Orders from the house.
Dan Torrance: It’ll cost more than money. It’ll cost me eight years. Eight behind me, and who knows how many in front of me.

Dan Torrance: Man takes a drink, the drink takes a drink, and then the drink takes a man. Ain’t it so, dad?
The Bartender: Medicine. Medicine is what it is. Bona fide cure-all. Depression, stress, remorse, failure, wipes it all away. The mind is a blackboard. And this is the eraser.
[he drinks the whisky he offered Dan]

The Bartender: A man tries. He provides. But he’s surrounded by mouths, that eat, and scream, and cry, and nag. So he asks for one thing, just one thing for him. To warm him up, to take the sting out of those days of the mouths, eating, and eating, and eating everything he makes, everything he has. And a family. A wife, a kid. Those mouths eat time. They eat your days on Earth. They just gobble them up. It’s enough to make a man sick.
The Bartender: [he pours more whiskey into the glass] And this is the medicine. So, tell me, pup, are you going to take your medicine?
Dan Torrance: I’m not.

The Bartender: [as Jack is cleaning up the drink he spilled on Dan] Management is concerned.
Dan Torrance: Concerned?
The Bartender: It’s horrible what she’s done to you. Pulled you into her mess. A smart man, well, he’d let her handle it. Let things unfold as they’re meant to. Why should you pay her tab, Doc? And for what? For this little girl, who started all this trouble?
Dan Torrance: What would management have me do about that?
The Bartender: Nothing. Easiest thing in the world to do, son. Just bring her inside. And then, well, you accept the things you cannot change.

Dan Torrance: [after they lure Rose into the Overlook, to Abra using his mind] When this starts, run.
Rose The Hat: Yes, you run, dear. And then I will find you, and you will scream for years until you die.
Abra Stone: We’ll see who does the screaming.
Rose The Hat: Oh, we’ll see indeed.

Rose The Hat: [to Abra, as Dan and Abra are trying to trap her in an imaginary box] You know, you remind me of myself. I can really see it now. You’ve got a darkness in you, dear. I think the only difference between you and me is time. You don’t know yet what you’d do for more time. But I promise you, dear, oh, you’d be surprised.

Rose The Hat: [after Dan and Abra fail to trap her in the imaginary box] How the hell did we miss you? Oh, you and I should have met years ago. Danny. That’s your name, isn’t it? Well, something happens to the steam when you rubes get older. It gets polluted. Dirty. You know that. I see the grease all over you. You don’t shine quite the same. Growing up spoils that, I guess.

Dan Torrance: [as Rose is trying to lure him to join her cult] You must be lonely, being the last one. I mean, the last one in the world.
Rose The Hat: Sweetie, I’m not the last. Far from it. I’m just the prettiest.
Dan Torrance: I assume you know my answer.
Rose The Hat: Pity. So are we doing this or not?
[Dan strikes the axe in his hand at Rose, which hits her shoulder]

Rose The Hat: [as she’s overpowering Dan and begins consuming his steam] You’re not alone in there. What are you hiding, huh?
Rose The Hat: [sees the locked boxes in Dan’s mind] What’s in those? Something special, huh?
Dan Torrance: They’re not special. They’re starving!
[Dan opens the boxes, releasing the Overlook’s ghosts, who attack and kill Rose]

Grady Twins: [after the Overlook ghosts kill Rose, they turn on Dan] Hello, Danny. Come and play with us, forever, and ever, and ever.

Horace Derwent: [after the Overlook ghosts possess Dan and he is pursuing Abra] Great party, isn’t it?

Dan Torrance: [after a possessed Dan pursues Abra to Room 237] Abra, you’ve been very, very bad.
Abra Stone: You’re not Uncle Dan. You’re a mask. A false face.
Dan Torrance: [speaks in multiple voices]  Who else would I be?
Abra Stone: You’re the hotel. But he’s still in there.
Dan Torrance: [possessed] Mask is off then.

Dan Torrance: [possessed] Why are you smiling?
Abra Stone: Because you don’t know where you’re standing.
Dan Torrance: [possessed] I know these halls like my own face, child.
Abra Stone: I mean the body you’re standing in. The face you’re wearing. That’s Dan Torrance, and you don’t know him.
Dan Torrance: [possessed] Dan Torrance.
Abra Stone: Dan Torrance made one stop as soon as he got here. To the boiler room.

Abra Stone: [as Dan gains control of himself] There you are.
Dan Torrance: You were supposed to run.
Abra Stone: I didn’t want to leave you.
Dan Torrance: I’m exactly where I’m supposed to be. I can’t hold it off for much longer. Abra, you need to run.
Abra Stone: No. I’m not going anywhere without you.
Dan Torrance: I have to close the door behind us, right? Run! Run!
[Abra runs, possessed Dan goes to the boiler room to stop the sabotaged boiler, but he regains control and as the flames engulf the room he sees himself as a child being comforted by Wendy]

Abra Stone: [after the Overlook fire, talking to Dan’s spirit in her room] The fire spread fast, destroying the hotel. Purifying it. I could almost hear it screaming. I could hear it dying. And deep inside, I knew. I knew you were okay.
Dan Torrance: I’m sorry I put you in danger. It was the only way.
Abra Stone: I know.

Abra Stone: [referring to Rose] Do you think she was right, when she said she wasn’t the last one?
Dan Torrance: The world’s a hungry place. A dark place. Maybe there’s more of them, or things like them, or worse, but there are more people like you too. People who stand. I told you when I first met you, I told you that you should hide. That you should keep your head down. Keep your shine out of sight. But I was wrong. Shine on, Abra Stone. You shine on.

Lucy Stone: [interrupts Abra talking to Dan’s spirit] Who are you talking to?
Abra Stone: No one. That’s not true. I was talking to Dan. We go on after. We go on. And he’s okay. So is daddy. He really is.
Lucy Stone: Good. You coming, sweetheart?
Abra Stone: In a minute.
[Abra turns and sees The Bathtub Lady from the Overlook in the bathroom, she enters the room and closes the door]