Top 78 King Roland Quotes
#1. We are going to fight. We are going to be hurt. And in the end, we will stand.
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#2. Oh Christ, I left my world to watch a kid put shoes on a fucked-up weasel. Shoot me Roland, before I breed.
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#3. Roland of Gilead responded as he ever had and ever would when such useless, mystifying questions were raised: 'Ka.
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#4. I'm afraid to go to sleep. I'm afraid my dead friends will come to me, and that seeing them will kill me.
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#5. And he thought that, had he been wearing his guns, he might well have drawn one and put a bullet in Susan Delgado's cold and whoring little heart.
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#6. On the other side of Mid-World, Roland of Gilead, the last gunslinger, had drawn this divided woman to him and had created a third, who was far better, far stronger, than either of the previous two.
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#7. So fell Lord Perth," murmured Roland. "And the countryside did shake with that thunder," Jake finished.
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#8. In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.
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#9. Thee's a good man, Roland of Gilead." He considered this, then slowly shook his head. "All my life I've had the fastest hands, but at being good I was always a little too slow." She
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#10. Willpower and dedication are good words' Roland remarked 'There's a bad one, though, that means the same thing. That one is obsession
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#11. It's a problem, isn't it?" "It's an opportunity," Roland corrected.
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#12. A person's never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain
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#13. It's a poorboy sanditch,' Roland said. 'With lots of mayo, whatever that is. I'd want a sauce that didn't look quite so much like come, myself, but may it do ya fine.
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#14. There was murder, there was rape, there were unspeakable practices, and all of them were for the good, the bloody good, the bloody myth, for the grail, for the Tower.
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#15. No," Roland said, "but it's a fair tale. Tell it to the end, please." Eddie did, finishing with the required They lived happily ever after, and the gunslinger nodded. "No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves, don't we?" "Yeah," Jake said.
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#16. Oy?" he asked. "Will you say goodbye?"
Oy looked at Roland, and for a moment the gunslinger wasn't sure he understood. Then the bumbler extended his neck and caressed the boy's cheek a last time with his tongue. "I, Ake," he said: Bye, Jake or I ache, it came to the same.
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#17. If,' Roland said. 'An old teacher of mine used to call it the only word a thousand letters long.
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#18. 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.
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#19. Eddie got in. Roland paused for a moment to tap his throat three times. Eddie had seen him perform this ritual before when about to cross open water, and reminded himself to ask about it. He never got the chance; before the question occurred to him again, death had slipped between them.
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#21. That, Eddie thought, was an exceedingly clever reply. Roland had said I can't answer ... but that wasn't the same thing as I don't know. Far from it.
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#22. I want to go to war," Eddie Dean said calmly.
"You don't know what you're talking about," Roland said, "but you're going to find out."
Eddie nodded. They went to their war.
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#23. Here is another one ready to die for you, Roland. What great wrong did you ever do that you should inspire such terrible loyalty in so many?
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#24. For the first time in his life, Roland found himself hating his own childhood. He wished for the size and calluses and sureness of age.
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#26. Roland opened his eyes and said, Goodbye, Jake. I love you, dear.
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#27. Jamie DeCurry had once proclaimed that Roland could shoot blindfolded, because he had eyes in his fingers.
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#28. But if God made the world, then God made the drink. And that is also His will. Ka, Roland thought.
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#29. Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.
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#30. Roland grabbed Jake and hauled him to his feet. "You came!" Jake shouted. "You really came!" "I came, yes. By the grace of the gods and the courage of my friends, I came.
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#31. He wanted her, suddenly and completely, with a desperate depth of feeling that felt like sickness. Everything he was and everything he had come for, it seemed, was secondary to her.
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#32. All of Mid-World had become one vast haunted mansion in these strange latter days; all of Mid-World had become The Drawers; all of Mid-World had become a waste land, haunting and haunted.
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#33. The gods frowned upon wastrels. Roland had been raised, first by his father and then by Cort, his greatest teacher, to believe this, and so he still believed. Those gods might not punish at once, but sooner or later the penance would be paid. And the longer the wait, the greater the weight.
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#34. Roland nodded. "And the shooting will happen so fast and be over so quick that you'll wonder what all the planning and palaver was for, when in the end it always comes down to the same five minutes' worth of blood, pain, and stupidity." He paused, then said: "I always feel sick afterward. Like
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#35. It's not your bullets I fear, Roland. It's your idea of answers that scares me.
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#36. Woman, I'm not Roland's sister, or his daughter, either! You maybe didn't notice a small but basic difference in the color of our hides, namely his being white and mine being black.
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#37. Fasten your seatbelts and prepare for turbulence: you're flying into ... the Roland Zone!
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#38. 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
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#39. First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead
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#40. Roland shook his head slowly. There was a lesson here, he realized, not a shining thing but something that was old and rusty and misshapen. It was why their fathers had let them come. And with his usual stubborn and inarticulate doggedness, Roland laid mental hands on whatever it was.
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#41. Some things don't rest easy, even when they're dead. Their bones cry out from the ground.
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#42. Let evil wait for the day on which it must fall.
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#43. I deal in lead! Roland called, and Eddie felt goose-bumps pebble his arms.
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#44. Stand right there. If your ass loses contact with that wall, you are going to lose contact with life as you have always known it. You understand?
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#45. VERY WELL, ROLAND OF GILEAD.
'VERY WELL, EDDIE OF NEW YORK.
'VERY WELL, SUSANNAH OF NEW YORK.
'VERY WELL, JAKE OF NEW YORK.
'VERY WELL, OY OF MID-WORLD.
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#46. Right is what all this is about," Roland said. "But if you look too long at the small rights, Jake - the ones that lie close at hand - it's easy to lose sight of the big ones that stand farther off.
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#47. They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.
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#48. The man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.
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#49. He looked at the white pills in his hand. 'Astin', Eddie called it. No, that wasn't quite right, but Roland couldn't pronounce the word as the prisoner had said it. Medicine was what it came down to. Medicine from that other world.
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#50. Not all are called to the way of the sword or the gun or the ship, but all serve ka.
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#52. A gunslinger knows pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.
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#53. Him's name is Roland, Mama. I dream about him, sometimes. Him's a King, too.
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#54. Of course it's heavier, he thought. It's got my grief in it. I pull it along with me everywhere I go, so I do.
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#55. I hold to no God," Roland said. "I hold to the Tower, and won't pray to that.
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#56. What if I fall?', Tim cried.
Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do.
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#57. Roland gave her a courtier's smile. "And what sort of work do you do for my uncle?
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Dorian shifted on his feet and Chaol went very still, but Celaena returned Roland's smile and said, "I bury the king's opponents where nobody will ever find them.
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#58. Hope you two boys can dig. There'll be some digging to do." "Graves?" Eddie asked, not sure if he was joking or not. "Graves come later." Roland looked up at the sky, but the clouds had advanced out of the west and stolen the stars. "Just remember, it's the winners who dig them.
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#59. The man in black fled across the dessert and the gunslinger followed.
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#60. Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied.
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#61. They were close to the end of the beginning . . .
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#62. Most politicians lie for the same reason a monkey swings by his tail, which is to say because he can.
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#63. I'll loosen the ropes a bit if you'll be still," Roland told her. "Suck shit out my ass, mahfah!" "I don't understand if that means yes or no.
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#65. A large praying mantis was performing ablutions on the springy stem of the kid's cowlick. The gunslinger snorted laughter-the first in gods knew how long-and set the fire and went after water.
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#66. It seems to me that none of this stuff is mine, that I'm nothing but Roland of Gilead's fucking secretary. I know that's stupid, but a part of me sort of believes it.
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#67. May you find your Tower, Roland, and breach it, and may you climb to the top!
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#68. The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go
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#69. Are you a gunslinger, Roland? If you are, you better get ready.
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#70. Do you believe in an afterlife?" the gunslinger asked him as Brown dropped three ears of hot corn onto his plate.
Brown nodded. "I think this is it.
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#71. Roland could not understand why anyone would want cocaine or any other illegal drug, for that matter, in a world where such a powerful one as sugar was so plentiful and cheap.
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#72. Their situation was becoming ever harder to deny: they were characters in someone's story. This whole world
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#73. Once again there was the desert, and that only.
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#75. The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear?"
Yes."
My Imagination."
I thought you were going to say "Fear, itself."
Then you have a small imagination."
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#77. Worlds which had trembled for a moment in their orbits now steadied, and in one of those worlds, in a desert that was the apotheosis of all deserts, a man named Roland turned over in his bedroll and slept easily once again beneath the alien constellations.
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#78. Roland's heart seemed to twist like a rag inside his chest, and there was a moment to wonder how it could possibly go on beating in the face of this.
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