Stephen King, The Gunslinger
18 quotes
"The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go"
"Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard"
"Time's the thief of memory"
"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."
"...and still the hands did their trick, like over-eager dogs that want to do their rolling—over trick for you not once or twice but all night."
"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?"
"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 . . ."
"Once again there was the desert, and that only."
"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."
"The trap had a ghastly perfection"
"Allie sighed. It was an old yellow sound, like turning pages."
"A gunslinger knows pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff."
"Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out."
"I never grew up all at once. I did it one place and another along the way."
"Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?"