Susannah Quotes

“You say true, I say thankya.”
― Stephen King

“They would go down fighting, but they were going to die there.

And he thought dying would be all right. It was going to break Roland's heart to lose the boy...yet he would go on. As long as the Dark Tower stood, Roland would go on.

Jake looked up. "She said, 'Remember the struggle.' "

"Susannah did."

"Yes. She came forward. Mia let her. And the song moved Mia. She wept."

"Say true?"

"True. Mia, daughter of none, mother of one. And while Mia was distracted...her eyes blind with tears..."

Jake looked around. Oy looked around with him, likely not searching for anything but only imitating his beloved Ake. Callahan was remembering that night on the Pavilion. The lights. The way Oy had stood on his hind legs and bowed to the folken. Susannah, singing. The lights. The dancing, Roland dancing the commala in the lights, the colored lights. Roland dancing in the white. Always Roland; and in the end, after the others had fallen, murdered away one by one in these bloody motions, Roland would remain.”
― Stephen King, Song of Susannah

“Most politicians lie for the same reason a monkey swings by his tail, which is to say because he can.”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower

“In New York—the New York of her own time, at least—they would have been objects of scorn and anger, the butt of every idiot’s crude, cruel jokes: a black woman of twenty-six and her whitebread lover who was three years younger and who had a tendency to talk like dis and dat when he got excited. Her whitebread lover who had been carrying a heavy monkey on his back only eight months before. Here, there was no one to jeer or laugh. Here, no one was pointing a finger. Here, there were only Roland, Eddie, and herself, the world’s last three gunslingers.”
― Stephen King, The Waste Lands

“King lächelte schwach und machte einen sanften Huiiiii-Laut”
― Stephen King, Song of Susannah

“Meinst du das? Gott nicht tot, aber schwachsinnig und bösartig?”
― Stephen King, Song of Susannah

“Du bist ein Sack Scheiße mit Beinen.”
― Stephen King, Song of Susannah

“Susannah erkannte mit aufkommender Verbitterung, dass sie jetzt die perfekte Definition einer Ka-Mai kannte: jemand mit Hoffnungen, aber ohne Alternativen.”
― Stephen King, Song of Susannah

“Im Land der Erinnerung ist die Zeit immer das Jetzt.
Im Königreich des Vergangenen ticken die Uhren … aber ihre Zeiger bewegen sich nie.”
― Stephen King, Song of Susannah

“Eine Katze kann im Backofen Junge bekommen, Mädchen, aber deshalb sind es noch lange keine Muffins.”
― Stephen King, Song of Susannah

“Marlen Zyla:
Unterschreiben Sie einfach auf der gepunkteten Linie, Madam, und lassen Sie sich bitte durch diesen Hauch von Pech und Schwefel nicht stören; mir will es einfach nicht gelingen, den Geruch aus den Kleidern zu bekommen.”
― Stephen King, Song of Susannah

“Die Schuld von Welten hängt ihm wie ein verwesender Leichnam um den Hals.”
― Stephen King, Song of Susannah

“Es war gut, wieder der Mann einer Frau zu sein, auch wenn es nur für kurze Zeit war.”
― Stephen King, Song of Susannah

“Dein Glaube versagt, und du ersetzt ihn durch rationales Denken. Aber es gibt keine Liebe in Gedanken, nichts Bleibendes in Herleitungen, nur Tod im Rationalismus.”
― Stephen King