"He has plenty of stuff to think about. He's been through a lot. Not every kid comes back from the dead. And it's like Roland says- if someone tries to face him down, it's the someone who's apt to be sorry." Eddie, Starkblast, page 5

"But done is done, Roland, as thee also knows. And thee doesn't nurse him out of love. Thee knows that, too... If 'twas only respect, I think you'd visit him, and read to him- for you read well, your mother always said so, and about that she spoke true- but you'd not clean his shit and change his bed. You are scourging yourself for the death of your mother, which was not your fault." Steven Deschain, The Skin-Man (Part 1), page 37

"They may still be a year or more from having to shave but once a week, but they're gunslingers, Fortie. If they can't set...