Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower, #4)

by Stephen King

See the BEAR of fearsome size! All the WORLD’S within his eyes. TIME grows thin, the past’s a riddle; The TOWER awaits you in the middle.

cousin to Maturin?

“Because it’s trouble,” Roland said, “and it’s in our road. We’ll get there in time. No need to live in trouble until trouble comes.”

“I can spare ye that, Will. There are nineteen.”

So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all.

“Aye,” Sheemie added suddenly. “Stand and be true, all three.”