The Waste Lands Quotes
"I do not aim with my hand; she who aims with her hand has forgotten the face of her father. I aim with my eye."
"I do not shoot with my hand; she who shoots with her hand has forgotten the face of her father. I shoot with my mind."
"I do not kill with my gun; she who kills with her gun has forgotten the face of her father. I kill with my heart."
"See the TURTLE of enormous girth! On his shell he holds the earth."
"It's said here, as well, and the saying comes from the story of the Guardians. Each supposedly carried an extra brain on the outside of its head. In a hat."
"It was bad luck to throw away what I found when I found the boy. This will replace it."
"'Too late, gunslinger,' 'Too late—your luck will be bad from now until the end of eternity—that is your ka.'"
"You haven't forgotten the face of your father. So do it. Shoot me if you dare. I'm tired of watching you blubber."
"You have come from the shadow of the heroin and the shadow of your brother, my friend. Come from the shadow of yourself, if you dare."
"I'm afraid, you numb fuck! Don't you understand that? Roland, I'm afraid!"
"I have forgotten the face of my father, gunslinger... and I cry your pardon."
"Your father sees you very well... loves you very well... and so do I."
"If he tries to steal us, I'll rip out his pages until he quits."
"I want to stand in that field of roses, and I want to see the Tower that stands there."
"Let go of my ears, because you don't have to drag me anymore."
"We're running into a whole hurricane of trouble here … I feel it, and I'm scared to death."
"Then, Eddie, we'll all remember the faces of our fathers."
"There's a city bus balanced up there someplace, as I remember."
"A heap of broken images, where the sun beats and the dead tree gives no shelter."
"There never were a backshooting gunslinger—that much I will say."
"I want to spend the rest of my life going forward."
"You're the best thing that ever happened to me."
"The voice of a very young and very frightened child."
"It's supposed to be pink for girls and blue for boys, not the other way around."
"It makes Grand Central look like a Greyhound station in Buttfuck, Nebraska."
"You and your monorail girlfriend, Patricia, will spend a lux-yoo-rious month in scenic Jimtown."
"I'm Little Blaine, the one he doesn't see. The one he forgot."
"I should think it obvious. I can't nuke the city without destroying myself, as well. And how could I take you where you want to go if I were destroyed?"
"Tough titty, said the kitty," Blaine responded unfeelingly.
"Because they bore me. You four, however, I find rather interesting."
"See you later alligator, after a while crocodile, don't forget to write."
"One piece of additional input: This gas is not painless."
"Let's see just how interesting you really are."
"To JAKE, the room Gasher dragged him into looked like a Minuteman missile silo which had been decorated by the inmates of a lunatic asylum."
"There's maybe a hundred thousand of those ever-fucking dipolar computers under the ever-fucking city! I want those computers!"
"All these boxes... I think we're riding through the mind of the thing that calls itself Blaine, Jake. I think we're riding through its mind."
"You have forgotten the faces of those who made you!"
"Rudeness is forgivable, Blaine; so I was taught in my youth, and the clay has dried in the shapes left by the artist's hand."
"I can call you a faithless creature who let your only companion kill herself, a coward who has delighted in the torture of the foolish and the slaughter of the innocent."
"I cannot call you a sucker of cocks, for instance, because you have no mouth and no cock."
"You said you wanted them right now," the gunslinger replied. "That was what I was refusing. Your eagerness has made you unseemly."
"I propose that, instead of a goose, our lives shall be the prize," Roland said.
"If one of you tells a riddle I cannot solve, I will spare your lives and take you to Topeka, where you will leave the Mono and continue your quest for the Dark Tower."
"Cast your nets, wanderers! Try me with your questions, and let the contest begin."