Sarah

“What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....”
― Stephen King, The Drawing of the Three

“If you have given up your heart for the Tower, Roland, you have already lost. A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless creature is a beast. To be a beast is perhaps bearable, although the man who has become one will surely pay hell’s own price in the end, but if you should gain your object? What if you should, heartless, storm the Dark Tower and win it? What could you do except degenerate from beast to monster? To gain one’s object as a beast would only be bitterly comic, like giving a magnifying glass to an elephaunt. But to gain one’s object as a monster…To pay hell is one thing. But do you want to own it?”
― Stephen King, The Drawing of the Three

“We had algebra together, right?”

“Yeah.” That was two years ago. I only vaguely remember him. Something about circles. “Didn’t you draw perfect circles?”

“That’s what I’m known for.”

“Really?” Erin goes, all excited about the circles.

Jason says, “No, it’s just this one time I went up to the board and I had to draw a circle and it came out really . . . round.”

“Which is always a good thing, when you’re drawing a circle,” I say.

“Exactly.” Jason smiles at me.

“It was more than one time,” I remind him. For some reason, it’s all coming back to me now. “It was more like three or four times.”

“What can I say?” Jason goes. “You got me.”

Now we’re both smiling.”
― Susane Colasanti, Something Like Fate

“Control the things you can control, maggot. Let everything else take a flying fuck at you and if you must go down, go down with your guns blazing.”
― Stephen King, The Drawing of the Three