Venca

“That, Eddie thought, was an exceedingly clever reply. Roland had said I can’t answer . . . but that wasn’t the same thing as I don’t know. Far from it.”
― Stephen King, The Waste Lands

“A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless creature is a beast.”
― Stephen King, The Drawing of the Three

“but what I mean is she talks like a cliche. Do you know that word?” “It means what is always said or believed by people who think only a little or not at all.”
― Stephen King, The Drawing of the Three

“Love isn't just wanting another person the way you want to own an object you see in a store. That's just desire. You want to have it around, take it home and set it up somewhere in the apartment like a lamp.”
― Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said