Roland Quotes

If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone

~ Stephen King

At the end of her life she was aware of heat but not pain. She had time to consider his eyes, eyes of that blue which is the color of the sky at first light of the morning. She had time to think of him on the Drop, riding Rusher flat out with his black hair flying back from his temples and his neckerchief rippling; to see him laughing with an ease and freedom he would never find again in the long life which stretched out for him beyond hers, and it was his laughter she took with her as she went out, fleeing the light and heat in to the silkly, consoling dark, calling to him over and over as she went, calling bird and bear and hare and fish.

~ Stephen King

The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go

~ Stephen King

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.

~ Stephen King

Most politicians lie for the same reason a monkey swings by his tail, which is to say because he can.

~ Stephen King

Of course it's heavier, he thought. It's got my grief in it. I pull it along with me everywhere I go, so I do.

~ Stephen King

The worse thing you can do in a fight is stop moving. When someone attacks, they create force, movement, momentum, but you'll be okay as long as you can see and feel the direction of that force and travel with it.

~ Victoria Schwab

the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.

~ Stephen King

They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.

~ Stephen King

They were close to the end of the beginning . . .

~ Stephen King

Once again there was the desert, and that only.

~ Stephen King

Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.

~ Stephen King

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.

~ Stephen King

The trap had a ghastly perfection

~ Stephen King

A gunslinger knows pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.

~ Stephen King

Do you believe in an afterlife? the gunslinger asked him as Brown dropped three ears of hot corn onto his plate.Brown nodded. I think this is it.

~ Stephen King

I, too, have my code. As long as I love you, your will must be my will. If you believe that yielding to me would be weakness, that accepting my love would destroy you, I will not touch you. You must come to me with the whole of your will, or not at all.

~ Robert Shea

paithin- ... he is orn! mother peytin's son, come to lead us to safety!zifnab- thats it! orn, favors his mother-roland- no, he doesnt. look! hes human! wouldnt mother whats- her - name's kid be and elf- wait!i know! he is one of the lords of thillia! come back to us, like the legend foretold!zifnab- that too! i dont know why i didnt recognize him. the spitting image of his father!

~ Margaret Weis