The Dark Tower (series)

"We're bound to do as you ask, if we judge your Calla in the White and those you call Wolves as agents of the outer dark: Beam-breakers, if you ken."

"A tear spilled down Callahan's right cheek, then another. He wiped them away absently. "I've never dared handle it, but I've seen it. Felt its power. Christ the Man Jesus help me, I have Black Thirteen under the floorboards of my church. And it's come alive. Do you understand me?" He looked at them with his wet eyes. "It's come alive.""

"There was a part of her—a spiteful Detta Walker part—that would always resent Roland's ascendancy in her heart and mind, but for the most part she recognized him for what he was: the last of his kind. Maybe even a hero."

"It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright."

"Thunderclap," she said in a voice Eddie could barely hear. "None go there.""Why?""It's dark there," she said, still not looking up from her lap. Then she raised an arm. This time she pointed in the direction from which Roland and his friends had come. Back toward Mid-World. "There," she said, "the world is ending. Or so we're told. And there..." She pointed east and now raised her face to Eddie's. "There, in Thunderclap, it's already ended. In the middle are we, who only want go our own way in peace."

"Thankee-sai, long days, kiss my ass and go to heaven."

"When it came to pulling coals out of a hot fire, he'd put two dollars on Roland of Gilead for every one he put on God and the Man Jesus, those heavenly gunslingers."

"It's the Way of the Eld. We are of that an-tet, khef and ka, watch and warrant. Gunslingers, do ya."

"When the shooting starts, we kill what moves."

"Roland was as much a prisoner of his rules and traditions as Eddie had ever been of heroin."

"The gunslinger's initial feelings for Eddie had wavered between caution and contempt for what Roland saw as his weakness of character. Respect had come more slowly. It had begun in Balazar's office, when Eddie had fought naked. Very few men Roland had known could have done that. It had grown with his realization of how much Eddie was like Cuthbert. Then, on the mono, Eddie had acted with a kind of desperate creativity that Roland could admire but never equal. Eddie Dean was possessed of Cuthbert Allgood's always puzzling and sometimes annoying sense of ridiculous; he was also possessed Alain John's deep flashes of intuition. Yet in the end, Eddie was like neither of Roland's old friends. He was sometimes weak and self-centered, but possessed of deep reservoirs of courage and courage's good sister, what Eddie himself sometimes called 'heart'."

"First come smiles, then comes lies. Last is gunfire."

"When everything's a surprise, experience takes on a dreamlike quality."

"Definition of a wanderer: a guy who's always looking beyond."

"All of your lies will cross your eyes."

"5 minutes of worth of blood and stupidity"

"They burst up and out of the earth like dragons teeth"

"We spread the time as we can, but in the end the world takes it all back."

"Food and palaver don't mix."

"Anger is the most useless emotion; destructive to the mind and hurtful of the heart."

"I need no sigul. Not the potter but the potter's clay, and I need no sigul!"

"Dad-a-chum, dad-a-chee! Not to worry, you've got the key!"

"Dead, like diamonds, was forever."

"You doom yourselves, Susannah. You seem positively bent on it, and the root is always the same: your faith fails you, and you replace it with rational thought. But there is no love in thought, nothing that lasts in deduction, only death in rationalism."

"I refuse to believe that I was raised in Brooklyn simply because of some writer's mistake, something that will eventually be fixed in the second draft."

"I don't think he needs to be immortal. I think all he needs to do is to write the right story. Because some stories do live forever."

""May you find your Tower, Roland, and breach it, and may you climb to the top!" The teeth of his old enemies, these ancient brothers and sisters of a thing which had called itself Kurt Barlow, sank into him like stingers. Callahan felt them not at all. He was smiling as he pulled the trigger and escaped them for good."

"You must never draw until you know how many are against you, or you've satisfied yourself that you can never know, or you've decided it's your day to die."

""There'll be guards", Eddie said. "Maybe a lot of them. What if we're outnumbered?" "It won't be the first time", Roland said."

"The bumbler did not bite, but said a single word. "Olan," said he. Then he lowered his head, uttered a single sigh, and died."

"So much you did; So much you did and so much more you would have done, aye, and all without a check or qualm, and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure."

"Gunfire makes close relations."

"Sometimes I think we'd all be better off if the people who mean well would just creep away and die."

"Any statement beginning with the words 'In truth' is almost always a lie."

"Even if the torture stops, I'll die. And you'll die too, for when love leaves the world, all hearts are still. Tell them of my love and tell them of my pain and tell them of my hope, which still lives. For this is all I have and all I am and all I ask."

"All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one."

"They were the hands of Gan, the hands of ka, and they knew no mercy"

"You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you."

"“A person’s never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, never too old. We live for them.""

"“In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.”"

"“It was not fair, it was not fair, it was not fair. So cried his child's heart, and then his child's heart died a little. For that is also the way of the world.”"

"Go then, there are other worlds than these."

"I don't like people, they fuck me up."

"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."