Deschain Quotes

“the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“They were close to the end of the beginning . . .”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“Once again there was the desert, and that only.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“There was murder, there was rape, there were unspeakable practices, and all of them were for the good, the bloody good, the bloody myth, for the grail, for the Tower.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“Do you believe in an afterlife?" the gunslinger asked him as Brown dropped three ears of hot corn onto his plate.

Brown nodded. "I think this is it.”
― Stephen King

“The trap had a ghastly perfection”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger