quest Quotes

“Let me explain it to you, let me run it down just briefly if I can. We’re looking for the American Dream, and we were told it was somewhere in this area. Well, we’re here looking for it, ‘cause they sent us out here all the way from San Francisco to look for it. That’s why they gave us this white Cadillac, they figure that we could catch up with it in that …”

“Their magic. Their quest. Their awfulness and strangeness. Her raven boys.”

“Was there ever a trap to match the trap of love?”

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”

“The man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.”

“The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.”

“To new beginnings. To the pursuit of...somethingness.”

″ If dying was required, he intended to die as Roland ... crawling toward the Tower. ”

“This is your promise ... things may be different ... there may yet be rest. Even salvation. ”

“Some tale-tellers say the Beams saved it; others say they are the seeds of the world’s destruction. ”

“Take us back to the Path of the Beam. ... That’s our way home. ”

“Ka comes to me ... I translate it ... I am not ka ... I hate it! ”

“It’s ... a job that needs to be done ... wrong cannot be allowed to stand. ”

“Of course, courage only counts when you can count.”

“He felt around desperately for a weapon. What did he have? Diapers? Cookies? Oh, why hadn’t they given him a sword? He was the stupid warrior, wasn’t he? His fingers dug in the leather bag and closed around the root beer can. Root beer! He yanked out the can shaking it with all his might. ‘Attack! Attack!’ he yelled.”

“Say it, reader. Say the word ‘quest’ out loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn’t it? So small and yet so full of wonder, so full of hope.”