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“Here the darkness hides him from my storyteller’s eye and he must go on alone.”

“We go to seek a better world. May you find one, as well.”

“So far I’ve traveled and so many I’ve hurt along the way, hurt or killed, and what I may have saved was saved by accident and can never save my soul, do I have one. Yet there’s this much: I’ve come to the head of the last trail, and I need not travel it alone, if only Susannah will go with me. Mayhap there’s still enough to fill my basket.”

“…they know better than that, every one of them — but because now they are ka-tet for the last time. The story of their fellowship ends here, on this make-believe street and beneath this artificial sun; the rest of the tale will be short and brutal compared to all that’s gone before. Because when ka-tet breaks, the end always comes quickly. Say sorry.”

“Anyone who doesn’t think the imagination can kill is a fool.”

“But you didn’t give up, did you? Giving up was for cowards, not gunslingers.”

“Go then, there are other worlds than these.”

“‘That life was richer,’ a voice in his mind whispered.
‘This one is truer,’ whispered another even deeper.”

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