Status Updates From Rose Madder

His first impulse was to throw the goddam thing away, but he restrained himself.

Oh, come on!

"Since disguise was out of the question, he had tried to go beyond disguise-to create a real person, the way a good actor can create a real person on stage. He had even come up with a name for this new guy: Hump Peterson."

So he shaves his head and pretends to be confined to a wheelchair in order to infiltrate an event and commit violence...
Is this the Dark Tower crossover stuff that fans love so much? It's a cool parallel, but I definitely don't think there's any real connection between Hodges/Brady/Holly and Rose/Bill/Norman. If we are supposed to read that into it because of some Ka reference, it doesn't interest me.

None of what’s happening here is happening because poor Rosie has had such a hard, hard life.” He hesitated and then said, “It’s happening because I’m in love with you.”

“You can’t know that. Not yet.”

“I know what I know,” he said, and she found the gentle insistence in his tone a little frightening.

“Now that’s enough soap opera. Let’s eat.” They did.

I don’t care so much about what you can stand or what you can manage as I do about what you like and want to have. Those are the kinds of things I want to give to you...

She really wasn’t seeing anything she couldn’t see from a car, after all. Except I am, she thought. I am because I’m not looking at it through a window and that makes it stop being just scenery. It’s the world, not scenery, and I’m in it.

King does know how to bring an experience to life, and his passion for motorcycles comes through strong here. The romance is so well written, too. Madder has many flaws, but the strengths are impressive.

"Strange, how hard it was to remember (what you have to remember) how she’d come by this trinket."

The theme of awareness or awakening has been inconsistent, but at least here he's continuing in the context of dreams versus reality.