TDT_Quotes

"The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed."

Quotes from
The Dark Tower Series

I
The Gunslinger

"Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as equals? There is an offer you will get rarely, Roland. Only equals speak the truth, that's my thought on't. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard. How tiresome!"
-The Man in Black-

II
The Drawing of the Three

He was a romantic in his own harsh way . . . yet he was also realist enough to know that sometimes love actually did conquer all.

III
The Waste Lands

"What do you say, pard? Shake the hand that shook the world."
-The Ageless Stranger-

IV
Wizard and Glass

"Kill if you will, but command me nothing! You have forgotten the faces of those who made you! Now either kill us or be silent and listen to me, Roland of Gilead, son of Steven, gunslinger, and lord of ancient lands! I have not come across all the miles and the years to listen to your childish prating! Do you understand? Now you will listen to ME!"
-Roland Deschain^[1]-

V
Wolves of the Calla

Yet in the end, he knew, the day would come and things would play out with shocking suddenness. The day always did. For five minutes, ten at most, and all would be finished, for good or ill.

The trick was to be ready when those few minutes came around.

VI
Song of Susannah

"I don't think he needs to be immortal. I think all he needs to do is write the right story. Because some stories do live forever."
-Eddie Dean-

VII
The Dark Tower

You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka^[2]is always served.
-Roland Deschain-

ABOUT

The Dark Tower is a series of eight books and one short story written by the American writer Stephen King. Often considered his Magnum Opus, it connects the Stephen King Multiverse and includes characters and settings from many of his other works, including The Stand, Salem's Lot, Insomnia etc. It tells the tale of Roland of Gilead, a gunslinger in search of the Dark Tower, the linchpin that holds together the Multiverse.

The story was inspired by Robert Browning's poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came," and the "Spaghetti Westerns" of his time.

The Dark Tower is a 2017 American dark fantasy western film, directed and co-written by Nikolaj Arcel. It is an adaptation of and canonical sequel to the Stephen King series, and is intended to be the first of a Multimedia series. It stars Idris Elba as Roland Deschain, a gunslinger chasing the Man in Black.

Created by Nor'wester. The Dark Tower, and all related contents, are copyrights of Stephen King.
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