The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, #2)

by Stephen King

They are as they are because they live in the light, the gunslinger thought suddenly. That light of civilization you were taught to adore above all other things. They live in a world which has not moved on.

Our lives are like these things I build. Sometimes they fall down for a reason, sometimes they fall down for no reason at all.”

Fault always lies in the same place, my fine babies: with him weak enough to lay blame.

So he was the last, and perhaps he had survived because the dark romance in his nature was overset by his practicality and simplicity.

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.