“The Tower. He would come to the Dark Tower and there he would sing their names; there he would sing their names; there he would sing all their names. The sun stained the east a dusky rose, and at last Roland, no longer the last gunslinger but one of the last three, slept and dreamed his angry dreams through which there ran only that one soothing blue thread: There I will sing all their names!”
― The Drawing of the Three
― The Drawing of the Three
“You know," King said, "I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not; it's the reason I write them down.”
― Song of Susannah
― Song of Susannah
“Men! She could not understand why so many women feared them. Hadn't the gods made them with the most vulnerable part of their guts hanging right out of their bodies, like a misplaced bit of bowel? Kick them there and they curled up like snails. Caress them there and their brains melted.”
― Wizard and Glass
― Wizard and Glass
“What if I fall?', Tim cried.
Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do.”
― The Wind Through the Keyhole
Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do.”
― The Wind Through the Keyhole
“The universe (he said) offers a paradox too great for the finite mind to grasp. As the living brain cannot conceive of a nonliving brain — although it may think it can — the finite mind cannot grasp the infinite.”
― The Gunslinger
― The Gunslinger
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