“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.”
― The Waste Lands
― The Waste Lands
“A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless creature is a beast.”
― The Drawing of the Three
― 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.”
― The Drawing of the Three
― 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.”
― Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
― Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
“The wheel of ka turns and the world moves on.”
― The Waste Lands
― The Waste Lands
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