

“Sympathy was to respect the feelings of another. Empathy was to actually share those feelings.”
― The Dark Tower
― The Dark Tower

“Beg your pardon," the gunslinger said. "I was wool-gathering.”
― The Dark Tower
― The Dark Tower

“Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts’ deepest loves, even when they leave us only for minutes, and on the most mundane of errands? No, not at all. Each time they go from our sight we in our secret hearts count them as dead. Having been given so much, we reason, how could we expect not to be brought as low as Lucifer for the staggering presumption of our love?”
― The Dark Tower
― The Dark Tower

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

“Oy?" he asked. "Will you say goodbye?"
Oy looked at Roland, and for a moment the gunslinger wasn't sure he understood. Then the bumbler extended his neck and caressed the boy's cheek a last time with his tongue. "I, Ake," he said: Bye, Jake or I ache, it came to the same.”
― The Dark Tower
Oy looked at Roland, and for a moment the gunslinger wasn't sure he understood. Then the bumbler extended his neck and caressed the boy's cheek a last time with his tongue. "I, Ake," he said: Bye, Jake or I ache, it came to the same.”
― The Dark Tower

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