Dark Tower Quotes - Page 3

• A person’s never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain

  Stephen King

  Girl, Boys, Men

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• I love my sons and I love that they are writers - I also love my daughter, who's a minister and an orchard keeper! - but I wouldn't wish the burden of Mid-World and the Dark Tower on them. I enjoy working with them, though, because we fit together.

  Stephen King

  Daughter, Son, Dark

  Interview with Catherine Elsworth, www.goodreads.com. November 2014.

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• So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little.

  Stephen King

  Memories, Fall, Eye

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass”, p.445, Simon and Schuster

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

  Stephen King

  Lying, Truth Is, Statements

  Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• The man in black smiled. "Shall we tell the truth then, you and I? No more lies?" I thought we had been." But the man in black persisted as if Roland hadn't spoken. "Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as equals? There is an offer you will get rarely, Roland. Only equals speak the truth, that's my thought on't. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard. How tiresome!

  Stephen King

  Lying, Men, Two

  Stephen King (2017). “The Dark Tower I (MTI): The Gunslinger”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

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• For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Hope, Light, Shadow

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.901, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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