"Beating heroin was child's play compared to beating your childhood" (Book 1, Part 1, Chapter 4, pg. 31.)

"He felt like two men existing inside one skull. Each man had his own set of memories, and when they began to argue, each insisting that his memories were the true ones, the gunslinger felt as if he were being ripped in two" (Book 1, Part 1, Chapter 5, pg. 37.)

"With the trigger as yet unpulled, she saw the bullet go home, guided from muzzle to target by nothing more or less than her heart's fierce desire that it should fly true" (Book 1, Part 1, Chapter 7, pg. 40.)

"This is my punishment for letting a boy who never existed fall to his death" (Book 1, Part 1, Chapter 13, pg. 54.)

"'The Drawers are places of desolation,' he said. 'The Drawers are the waste lands"" (Book 1, Part 1, Chapter 14, pg. 61.)

"Yet now I am living in those times, and I don't believe they...