“In that instant it all seemed to come clear to him- it came in a grisly flash of light, and he realized that the vote they had taken as children was a joke. There was no turning back, never had been. They were on a track as preordained as the memory-track which had caused him to look up when he passed under the stairway leading to the stacks. There was an echo here in Derry, a deadly echo, and all they could hope for was that the echo could be changed enough in their favor to allow them to escape with their lives.” DestinyFateDerry Book:It Source: It
“Maybe this isn't home, nor ever was- maybe home is where I have to go tonight. Home is the place where when you go there, you have to finally face the thing in the dark.” HomeHorrorComing HomeDerry Book:It Source: It
“October 6, 2017 “Here I sit next to the telephone. I put my free hand on it . . . let it slide down . . . touch the holes in the dial that could put me in touch with all of them, my old pals. We went deep together. We went into the black together. Would we come out of the black if we went in a second time? I don’t think so. Please God I don’t have to call them. Please God.” HorrorMikeItCallPhoneDerryPennywiseHanlon Book:It Source: It
“I wonder how much- or how little- they remember. I am somehow convinced that they don't remember any of it, because they don't need to remember. I'm the only one that hears the voice of the Turtle, the only one who remembers, because I'm the only one who stayed here in Derry. And because they're scattered to the four winds, they have no way of knowing the identical patterns their lives have taken. To bring them back, to show them that pattern....yes, it might kill some of them. It might kill all of them.” HorrorChildhood TraumaChildhood FriendsDerry Book:It Source: It
“I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.” LittlesHollywoodTownsBackgroundsIrelandBroadwayLittle TownsDerry Author:Damian McGinty
“The best set was probably 'Bloody Sunday.' We had no money for extras and gambled on months of outreach to persuade the people of Derry to turn out and march for us on one single afternoon. And they did. In their tens of thousands. Seeing them march, their patience and their dignity and their commitment, I knew the movie would have a quality of truth.” PeopleTurnsQualitySeeingMonthsCommitmentDignityExtrasSundayMarchAfternoonBloodyNo MoneyOutreachDerry Author:Steven Soderbergh
“I started after him...and the clown looked back. I saw Its eyes, and all at once I understood who It was." "Who was it, Don?" Harold Gardner asked softly. "It was Derry," Don Hagarty said. "It was this town.” SaidEyeSawsUnderstoodTownsClownDerry Author:Stephen King
“On that gray street, with the smell of industrial smokes in the air and the afternoon bleeding away to evening, downtown Derry looked only marginally more charming than a dead hooker in a church pew.” ChurchAirStreetsSmellEveningSmokeGrayAfternoonCharmingBleedingDowntownDerry Book:11/22/63: A Novel Source: 11/22/63: A Novel
“I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination.” CoursesWorstExampleGrewGrew UpDiscriminationIrelandNorthern IrelandDerry Author:John Hume
“The boat dipped and swayed and sometimes took on water, but it did not sink; the two brothers had waterproofed it well. I do not know where it finally fetched up, if it ever did; perhaps it reached the sea and sails there forever, like a magic boat in a fairytale. All I know is that it was still afloat and still running on the breast of the flood when it passed the incorporated town limits of Derry, Maine, and there it passes out of this tale forever.” IfsKnowsWellsStillsTwoSometimesRunningWaterForeverMagicSeaBrotherLimitsTownsTalesBoatBreastsFloodSailFairytaleMaineTwo BrothersDerry Author:Stephen King
“I'll tell you what, it doesn't get more beautiful than the west of Ireland. Connemara and County Derry are quite stunning, really.” BeautifulWestIrelandCountyStunningDerry Author:Matthew William Goode