Eddie Kaspbrak Quotes

Eddie runs quite fast he runs quite fast when you're not here runs quite fast when there's nobody around to remind him of how delicate he is and I see in his face Mrs. Kaspbrak that he knows even now at the age of nine he knows that the biggest favor in the world he could do himself would be to run fast in any direction you're not going let him go Mrs. Kaspbrak let him RUN

Eddie, my love

That's cause they know how cute you are, Eds - just like me. I saw what a cutie you were the first time I met you.

Richie jumped to his feet second time and pinched Eddie’s cheek. “Cute, cute, cute!” Richie exclaimed.

Richie came bopping down to the stream, glanced at Ben with some interest, and then pinched Eddie’s cheek.

He called Eddie Kaspbrak next, but Eddie sounded even more depressed than Bill - his mother had gotten them each a full-day bus pass, he said, and they were going to visit Eddie’s aunts … ‘They’ll all pinch my cheek and tell me how much I’ve grown,’ Eddie said. ‘That’s cause they know how cute you are, Eds - just like me. I saw what a cutie you are the first time I met you.

Richie had about a dozen different Voices. His ambition, he had told Eddie one rainy afternoon when they were in the little raftered room over the Kaspbrak garage reading Little Lulu comic books, was to become the world’s greatest ventriloquist.

He said when we come down here nobody gives us any static.’ Eddie said. His voice was thin and whistling but it was also unmistakably firm. ‘And he’s right. When guys like us go to the park and say we want to play baseball the other guys say sure, you want to be second base or third?’ Richie cackled. ‘Eddie Gets Off A Good One! And…You Are There!

Man, he had hated it when Richie called him Eds…but he had sort of liked it, too. It was something….like a secret name. A secret identity. A way to be people that had nothing to do with their parents’ fears, hopes, constant demands. Richie couldn’t do his beloved Voices for shit, but maybe he did know how important it was do creeps like them to sometimes be different people.