Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower, #5)

by Stephen King

“No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves, don’t we?”

But how you feel and how long you feel it doesn’t always have a lot to do with objective truth.

“If,” Roland said. “An old teacher of mine used to call it the only word a thousand letters long.”

It’s a wholly illogical but nonetheless powerful belief that things will change for the better in a new place; that the urge to self-destruct will magically disappear.

The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we’re still alive, after all.

“Wandering’s the most addictive drug there is, I think, and every hidden road leads on to a dozen more.”

When one knows and one does not, the one who does not must bow his head and the one who does must take responsibility.