Home > Work > The Drawing of the Three

The Drawing of the Three QUOTES

The Drawing of the Three QUOTES

1 " What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.... "

― Stephen King , The Drawing of the Three

2 " Might as well try to drink the ocean with a spoon as argue with a lover. "

― Stephen King , The Drawing of the Three

3 " Later, with strange galaxies turning in slow gavotte overhead, neither thought the act of love had ever been so sweet, so full "

― Stephen King , The Drawing of the Three

4 " I looked at what he built, and to me it explained the stars. "

― Stephen King , The Drawing of the Three

5 " Roland could not understand why anyone would want cocaine or any other illegal drug, for that matter, in a world where such a powerful one as sugar was so plentiful and cheap. "

― Stephen King , The Drawing of the Three

6 " There had never been a shortage of fools in the world "

― Stephen King , The Drawing of the Three

7 " Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life's a fiction and the world's a lie, so put on some Creedence and let's get high. "

― Stephen King , The Drawing of the Three

8 " He was a romantic in his own harsh way…yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did conquer all. "

― Stephen King , The Drawing of the Three

9 " Control the things you can control, maggot. Let everything else take a flying fuck at you and if you must go down, go down with your guns blazing. "

― Stephen King , The Drawing of the Three

10 " We are going to fight. We are going to be hurt. And in the end, we will stand. "

― Stephen King , The Drawing of the Three

11 " For every mother who ever cursed God for her child dead in the road, for every father who ever cursed the man who sent him away from the factory with no job, for every child who was ever born to pain and asked why, this is the answer. Our lives are like these things I build. Sometimes they fall down for a reason, sometimes they fall down for no reason at all. "

― Stephen King , The Drawing of the Three

12 " Did-a-chick? Dum-a-chum? Dad-a-cham? Ded-a-chek? "

― Stephen King , The Drawing of the Three

13 " Roland knew the story and said nothing. It was Eddie who didn’t know the story, an Eddie who was really clear-headed for the first time in maybe ten years or more. Eddie wasn’t telling the story to Roland; Eddie was finally telling the story to himself. "

― Stephen King , The Drawing of the Three

14 " He walked out of nowhere toward nowhere, a man from another time who, it seemed, had reached a point of pointless ending. "

― Stephen King , The Drawing of the Three

15 " Because the difference between seeing and not seeing can be the difference between living and dying. "

― Stephen King , The Drawing of the Three

16 " Tanto vale bersi l'oceano con un cucchiaino piuttosto che discutere con un innamorato. "

― Stephen King , The Drawing of the Three

17 " It was the Tower. The Dark Tower. It stood on the horizon of a vast plain the color of blood in the violent setting of a dying sun. He couldn't see the stairs which spiraled up and up and up within its brick shell, but he could see the windows which spiraled up along that staircase’s way, and saw the ghosts of all the people he had ever known pass through them. Up and up they marched, and an arid wind brought him the sound of voices calling his name. "

― Stephen King , The Drawing of the Three

18 " If you have given up your heart for the Tower, Roland, you have already lost. A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless creature is a beast. To be a beast is perhaps bearable, although the man who has become one will surely pay hell’s own price in the end, but if you should gain your object? What if you should, heartless, storm the Dark Tower and win it? What could you do except degenerate from beast to monster? To gain one’s object as a beast would only be bitterly comic, like giving a magnifying glass to an elephant. But to gain one’s object as a monster…To pay hell is one thing. But do you want to own it? "

― Stephen King , The Drawing of the Three

19 " The gunslinger had no idea what tooter-fish was, but he knew a popkin when he saw it. "

― Stephen King , The Drawing of the Three

20 " The lesson is that you're just an animal in a cage, no more than that, no better than that. "

― Stephen King , The Drawing of the Three