“Ka works and the world moves on.”

“Luck's the word those with poor hearts use for ka...”

“Ka was a wheel; it was also a net from which none ever escaped.”

“My friend wants to get moving and so do I,' Eddie said. 'We've got miles to go yet.'I know that. It's on your face, son. Like a scar.'Eddie was fascinated by the idea of duty and ka as something that left a mark, something that might look like decoration to one eye and disfigurement to another. Outside, thunder cracked and lightning flashed.”

“The world had moved on and all that was over, done before fairly begun.”

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

“If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone”