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Tag: the dark tower

  • March 1st, 2012 11:32pm

    Right is what all this is about,“ Roland said. "But if you look too long at the small rights, Jake – the ones that lie close at hand – it’s easy to lose sight of the big ones that stand farther off. Things are out of joint – going wrong and getting worse. We see it all around us, but the answers are still ahead. While we were helping the twenty or thirty people left in River Crossing, twenty or thirty thousand more might be suffering or dying somewhere else. And if there is any place in the universe where these things can be set right, it’s at the Dark Tower.”

    — Roland Deschain – (Stephen King) The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands. 

  • February 9th, 2012 2:05pm

    True love, like any other strong and addicting drug, is boring – once the tale of encounter and discovery is told, kisses quickly grow stale and caresses tiresome…except, of course, to those who the kisses, who give and take the caresses while every sound and color of the world seem to deepen and brighten around them.

    — Stephen King – The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass

  • February 7th, 2012 9:28pm

    And so, my dear Constant Reader, I tell you this: You can stop here. You can let your last memory be of seeing Eddie, Susannah, and Jake in Central Park, together again for the first time, listening to the childrens’s choir sing “What Child Is This”. You can be content in the knowledge that sooner or later Oy (probably a canine version with a long neck, odd goldringed eyes, and a bark that sometimes sounds eerily like speech) will also enter the picture. That’s a pretty picture, isn’t it? I think so. And pretty close to happily ever after, too. Close enough for government work, as Eddie would say.

    Should you go on, you will surely be disappinted, perhaps even heartbroken. I have one key left on my belt, but all it opens is that final door, the one marked unfound. What’s behind it won’t improve your lovelife, grow hair on your bald spot, or add five years to your natural span (not even five minutes). There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal “Once upon a time”.

    Endings are heartless.
    Ending is just another word for goodbye.

    — Stephen King – The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower (via goingnineteen)