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“the fug thickened,”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower Boxed Set

“Yet he waited. Sometimes that was all a man could do.”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower Boxed Set

“Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it.”
― Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole

“For these are mine, sure. As I am theirs. We are round, and roll as we do. And you know what we are.”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower Boxed Set

“Naught be zero, naught be free,” he said. “I owe not you, nor you owe me. At least for now. They have not decided to ask.”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower Boxed Set

“It’s no trick,” Roland said, “never think it. It’s the Way of the Eld. We are of that an-tet, khef and ka, watch and warrant. Gunslingers, do ya.”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower Boxed Set

“Let evil wait for the day on which it must fall.”
― Stephen King

“Not just that, he thought, and remembered a phrase his English teacher had used about how some books make us feel: the ecstasy of perfect recognition.”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower Boxed Set

“He came with her willingly, and went where she took him. She kept a secret spring surrounded by sweet moss, and there he was refreshed.”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower Boxed Set

“Roland had heard there were tribes of slow mutants who referred to the Father of Jesus as Big Sky Daddy.”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower Boxed Set

“first the smiles, then the lies. Last comes gunfire.”
― Stephen King, Wolves of the Calla

“Cat can have kittens in the oven, girl, but that won’t ever make em muffins.”
― Stephen King, Song of Susannah

“He used to tell me that never’s the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower

“Time flies, knells call, life passes, so hear my prayer. “Birth is nothing but death begun, so hear my prayer. “Death is speechless, so hear my speech.” The words drifted away into the haze of green and gold. Roland let them, then set upon the rest. He spoke more quickly now. “This is Jake, who served his ka and his tet. Say true. “May the forgiving glance of S’mana heal his heart. Say please. “May the arms of Gan raise him from the darkness of this earth. Say please. “Surround him, Gan, with light. “Fill him, Chloe, with strength. “If he is thirsty, give him water in the clearing. “If he is hungry, give him food in the clearing. “May his life on this earth and the pain of his passing become as a dream to his waking soul, and let his eyes fall upon every lovely sight; let him find the friends that were lost to him, and let every one whose name he calls call his in return. “This is Jake, who lived well, loved his own, and died as ka would have it. “Each man owes a death. This is Jake. Give him peace.” He knelt a moment longer with his hands clasped between his knees, thinking he had not understood the true power of sorrow, nor the pain of regret, until this moment. I cannot bear to let him go. But once again, that cruel paradox: if he didn’t, the sacrifice was in vain. Roland opened his eyes and said, “Goodbye, Jake. I love you, dear.”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower Boxed Set

“See the TURTLE of enormous girth! On his shell he holds the earth. His thought is slow but always kind; He holds us all within his mind. On his back all vows are made; He sees the truth but mayn’t aid. He loves the land and loves the sea, And even loves a child like me.”
― Stephen King, The Waste Lands

“What was done was done in both worlds, well and ill, for ka and against it. Yet there’s more beyond all worlds than you know, and more behind them than you could ever guess. My time is short, so let’s move on.”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower Boxed Set

“Spark-a-dark, who’s my sire? Will I lay me? Will I stay me? Bless this camp with fire.”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower Boxed Set

“Ring-A-Levio. Ringo, for short.”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower Boxed Set

“dark well in everyone, I think, and it never goes dry. But you drink from it at your peril. That water is poison.”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“You simplify because you cannot believe. You reduce; you diminish. Because you were raised to doubt and debunk. To reduce to a small set of knowns for easy digestion. Because you are a doctor, a man of science, and because this is America—where everything is known and understood, and God is a benevolent dictator, and the future must always be bright.”
― Guillermo del Toro, The Strain

“When the power of Jesus fails you, then you know you truly are shit out of luck.”
― Guillermo del Toro, The Strain

“Science has made many advances in my lifetime, but the instrument has yet to be invented that can see clearly into the marriage of a man and a woman.”
― Guillermo del Toro, The Strain

“What is life, in the end, but a series of small victories and larger failures?”
― Guillermo del Toro, The Fall

“My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be served; on the contrary it resents any attempt to serve it.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“God is no sissy. He made the Grand Canyon and comets coursing through the sky and cyclones and stallions and earthquakes—can a God who can do all that turn around and practically wet His pants just because some little sheila leans over a mite and a man catches sight of a tit?”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“The human body is often pleasing, frequently depressing—and never significant per se.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“Love’ is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“devise an ideal ethic and applaud his recognition that such must start by junking the present sexual code and starting fresh. Most philosophers haven’t the courage for this; they swallow the basics of the present code—monogamy, family pattern, continence, body taboos, conventional restrictions on intercourse, and so forth—then fiddle with details . . . even such piffle as discussing whether the female breast is an obscene sight!”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“But while he labored, his children, his myriad bright children, found the rainbow, and were filled with rejoicing at its beauty. Together, they climbed into the heavens and scampered happily up the bow, dancing gay dances across its colors.”
― Stephen R. Donaldson, Lord Foul's Bane