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41 " Töte, wenn du willst, aber befiehl mir nichts! "
― Stephen King , The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower #3)
42 " All of Mid-World had become one vast haunted mansion in these strange latter days; all of Mid-World had become The Drawers; all of Mid-World had become a waste land, haunting and haunted. "
43 " Kein glücklicher Gedanke, aber höchstwahrscheinlich ein wahrer. "
44 " Don't ask me silly questionsI won't play silly gamesI'm just a simple choo choo trainAnd I'll always be the same.I only want to race alongBeneath the bright blue skyAnd be a happy choo choo trainUntil the day I die. "
45 " All is silent in the halls of the dead. All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead, Behold the stairways which stand in darkness; behold the rooms of ruin. These are the halls of the dead where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one. "
46 " Kill if you will, but command me nothing! "
47 " Wow. This makes grand central look like a bus stop in Buttfuck Nebraska. "
48 " The lessons which I remember the longest are always the ones that are self-taught "
49 " Io non miro con la mano; colui che mira con la mano ha dimenticato il volto di suo padre. Io miro con l’occhio.Io non sparo con la mano; colui che spara con la mano ha dimenticato il volto di suo padre. Io sparo con la mente.Io non uccido con la pistola; colui che uccide con la pistola ha dimenticato il volto di suo padre.Io uccido con il cuore. "
50 " Roland grabbed Jake and hauled him to his feet. “You came!” Jake shouted. “You really came!” “I came, yes. By the grace of the gods and the courage of my friends, I came. "
51 " After all, there are other worlds than these and that fuckin train rolls through all of them. "
52 " Then, as understanding began to trickle through his shock, he felt an escalating sense of horror. It had finally happened; he had finally lost enough of his mind so that other people would be able to *tell*. "
53 " The wheel of ka turns and the world moves on. "
54 " Of them all, he had been the most perfectly made, a man whose deeply romantic core was encased in a brutally simple box which consisted of instinct and pragmatism. "
55 " And fire was evil stuff that delighted in escaping the hands which created it. "
56 " The mild, spicy smell of old books hit him, and the smell was somehow like coming home. "
57 " In the end, all things, even the Beams, serve the Dark Tower. Did you think you would be any different? "
58 " The gunslinger is the truth. Roland is the truth. The Prisoner is the truth. The Lady of Shadows is the truth. The Prisoner and the Lady are married. That is the truth. The way station is the truth. The Speaking Demon is the truth. We went under the mountains and that is the truth. There were monsters under the mountain. That is the truth. One of them had an Amoco gas pump between his legs and was pretending it was his penis. That is the truth. Roland let me die. That is the truth. I still love him. That is the truth. "
59 " Wait or me where the trees clear and the water's sweet. I'll come to ye, ay, as sure as dawn makes shadows run west. "
60 " Fasten your seatbelts and prepare for turbulence: you’re flying into . . . the Roland Zone! "