The abyss is a desert; no one can afford the luxury of waiting for better odds.
“There is such joy in chaos. Stow all the world’s evils behind a door and tell men that they must never, ever, open the door, and it will be opened because there is pure joy in destruction.”
― The Pale Horseman
― The Pale Horseman
“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
― The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) separate
― The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) separate
“and at the end all there may be is the stupid, unthinking scream of living tissue.”
― The Talisman
― The Talisman
“He is too young to have learned to hate himself yet, but that seed is already there; given time, it will grow, and bear bitter fruit.”
― The Gunslinger
― The Gunslinger
“Life evolves. Parasites evolve. Sex evolves to counter the parasites. Shuffles the genes so the parasites have to shoot for a moving target. Everything else—species diversity, density-dependence, everything—it all follows from those three laws. You get a self-replicating string past a certain threshold, it’s like a nuclear reaction.”
― Starfish
― Starfish
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