Quotes from book

The Gunslinger

“Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?”

“Time's the thief of memory”

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

“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.”

“Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard.”

“Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.”

“Beyond the reach of human rage
A drop of hell, a touch of strange…”

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

“You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without friends or the need of them.”

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

“First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead”

“The mystery of the universe is not time but size.”

“Once again there was the desert, and that only.”

“See the TURTLE of enormous girth,
On his shell he holds the earth.
If you want to run and play,
Come along the BEAM today.”

“where the world ends is where you must begin”

“Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?”

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

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

“They were close to the end of the beginning…”