Richard Quist

“What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, if he should lose his own son?”
― Stephen King, The Talisman

“The Talisman hung in the air high above him, slowly revolving. It was a crystal globe perhaps three feet in circumference—the corona of its glow was so brilliant it was impossible to tell exactly how big it was. Gracefully curving lines seemed to groove its surface, like lines of longitude and latitude . . . and why not? Jack thought, still in a deep daze of awe and amazement. It is the world—ALL worlds—in microcosm. More; it is the axis of all possible worlds.”
― Stephen King, The Talisman

“According to this story, the Father had granted them the gift of immortality as a reward for their great wisdom, allowing them to continue carrying out”
― Manuel Mesa, A Dark Path

“Near the middle of December in the year 1981, a boy named Jack Sawyer stood where the water and the land came together, hands in the pockets of his jeans, looking out at the steady Pacific. He was twelve years old and extraordinarily beautiful for his age.”
― Stephen King, The Talisman