26 quotes found
“Time's the thief of memory”
“The trap had a ghastly perfection”
“Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
“Once again there was the desert, and that only.”
“Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?”
“They were close to the end of the beginning . . .”
“Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.”
“The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.”
“But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.”
“The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go”
“Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?”
“He was one of those quite rare adults who communicate with small children fairly well and who love them all impartially--not in a sugary way but in a businesslike fashion that may sometimes entail ...”
“Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard”
“A few of the gunslingers dance, but only a few. And they were the young ones. The other ones only sat, and it seemed to me they were half embarrassed in all that light, that civilized light.”
“The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed”
“...and still the hands did their trick, like over-eager dogs that want to do their rollingover trick for you not once or twice but all night.”
“the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.”
“They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.”
“Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.”
“There was murder, there was rape, there were unspeakable practices, and all of them were for the good, the bloody good, the bloody myth, for the grail, for the Tower.”
“Do grown men always have to play games? Does everything have to be an excuse for another kind of game? Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?”
