“First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead”

“First comes smiles, then comes lies. Last is gunfire.”

“A person’s never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain”

“Roland of Gilead responded as he ever had and ever would when such useless, mystifying questions were raised: 'Ka.”

“He looked back at them, and Eddie saw something he had never expected to see in his life—not even if that life stretched over a thousand years. Roland of Gilead was weeping.”

“The man in black smiled. "Shall we tell the truth then, you and I? No more lies?"I thought we had been."But the man in black persisted as if Roland hadn't spoken. "Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as equals? There is an offer you will get rarely, Roland. Only equals speak the truth, that's my thought on't. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard. How tiresome!”