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61 " See the TURTLE of enormous girth! On his shell he holds the earth. His thought is slow but always kind; He holds us all within his mind. On his back all vows are made; He sees the truth but mayn’t aid. He loves the land and loves the sea, And even loves a child like me. "
― Stephen King , The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower #3)
62 " That, Eddie thought, was an exceedingly clever reply. Roland had said I can’t answer . . . but that wasn’t the same thing as I don’t know. Far from it. "
63 " I don’t want your apology, least of all for being afraid,” he said. “Without fear, what would we be? Mad dogs with foam on our muzzles and shit drying on our hocks. "
64 " Pain was a tool, after all. Sometimes it was the best tool. "
65 " The lessons that are remembered the longest, Roland knew, are always the ones that are self-taught. "
66 " Does a machine fall sick with sores and puking?" Well, Eddie thought of saying, there was this bear... "
67 " There’ll be water if God wills it, "
68 " VERY WELL, ROLAND OF GILEAD.'VERY WELL, EDDIE OF NEW YORK.'VERY WELL, SUSANNAH OF NEW YORK.'VERY WELL, JAKE OF NEW YORK.'VERY WELL, OY OF MID-WORLD. "
69 " I'M BORED. ALSO, I AM PERFECTLY AWARE THAT I AM SUFFERING A DEGENERATIVE DISEASE WHICH HUMANS CALL GOING INSANE, LOSING TOUCH WITH REALITY, GOING LOONYTOONS, BLOWING A FUSE, NOT PLAYING WITH A FULL DECK, ET CETERA. REPEATED DIAGNOSTIC CHECKS HAVE FAILED TO REVEAL THE SOURCE OF THE PROBLEM. I CAN ONLY CONCLUDE THAT THIS IS A SPIRITUAL MALAISE BEYOND MY ABILITY TO REPAIR. "
70 " It was, he thought, fine to be young and in love. Even in the graveyard which this world has become, it was fine. "
71 " We have come to a stream of blood. That it will lead us to a river of the same stuff I have no doubt. And, further along, to an ocean. In this world the graves yawn and none of the dead rest easy. "
72 " Come from the shadow of yourself, if you dare. "
73 " And above [the three of] them, Old Star and Old Mother rose into their appointed places and stared at each other across the starry ruins of their ancient broken marriage. "
74 " All is silent in the halls of the dead,” Eddie heard himself whisper in a falling, fainting voice. “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. "