"If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I'll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it's yours."
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"First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead"
"The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle."
"JK Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will live forever"
"Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists."
"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."
"Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters."
"It's a little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory."
"There will be water if God wills it."
"If we don't have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness."
"Once again there was the desert, and that only."
"A person’s never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain"
"Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home."
"Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free."
"But then fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you."
"Sometimes the embers are better than the campfire."
"I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy."
"When all else fails, give up and go to the library."
"Go then, there are other worlds than these."
"In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness."