Quotes from The Waste Lands

“Don't ask me silly questions
I won't play silly games
I'm just a simple choo choo train
And I'll always be the same.

I only want to race along
Beneath the bright blue sky
And be a happy choo choo train
Until the day I die.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Waste Lands

“Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Waste Lands

“Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Waste Lands

“Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find another world on the other side. A bell jingled overhead. The mild, spicy smell of old books hit him, and the smell was somehow like coming home.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Waste Lands

“Ka was like a wheel, its one purpose to turn, and in the end it always came back to the place where it had started.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Waste Lands

“Kill if you will, but command me nothing!”
― Stephen King, quote from The Waste Lands

“Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Waste Lands

“All is silent in the halls of the dead. All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead, Behold the stairways which stand in darkness; behold the rooms of ruin. These are the halls of the dead where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Waste Lands

“I kill with my heart, motherfucker”
― Stephen King, quote from The Waste Lands

“See the TURTLE, ain't he keen? All things serve the fuckin Beam.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Waste Lands

“Wow. This makes grand central look like a bus stop in Buttfuck Nebraska.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Waste Lands

“See the turtle of enormous girth, on his shell he holds the earth. If you want to run and play, come along the beam today.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Waste Lands

“What we’ve got here is a lunatic genius ghost-in-the-computer monorail that likes riddles and goes faster than the speed of sound. Welcome to the fantasy version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Waste Lands

“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.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Waste Lands

“The lessons which I remember the longest are always the ones that are self-taught”
― Stephen King, quote from The Waste Lands

“It's just that I take riddling seriously. I was taught that the ability to solve them indicates a sane and rational mind.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Waste Lands

“Then, as understanding began to trickle through his shock, he felt an escalating sense of horror. It had finally happened; he had finally lost enough of his mind so that other people would be able to *tell*.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Waste Lands

“Of them all, he had been the most perfectly made, a man whose deeply romantic core was encased in a brutally simple box which consisted of instinct and pragmatism.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Waste Lands

“Io non miro con la mano; colui che mira con la mano ha dimenticato il volto di suo padre. Io miro con l’occhio.
Io non sparo con la mano; colui che spara con la mano ha dimenticato il volto di suo padre. Io sparo con la mente.
Io non uccido con la pistola; colui che uccide con la pistola ha dimenticato il volto di suo padre.
Io uccido con il cuore.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Waste Lands

“You haven't finished the key, but not because you are afraid to finish. You're afraid of finding you can't finish. You're afraid to go down to where the stones stand, but not because you're afraid of what may come once you enter the circle. You're afraid of what may not come. You're not afraid of the great world, Eddie, but of the small one inside yourself.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Waste Lands

“After all, there are other worlds than these and that fuckin train rolls through all of them.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Waste Lands

“The mild, spicy smell of old books hit him, and the smell was somehow like coming home.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Waste Lands

“It had been like swallowing a gust of October wind.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Waste Lands

“The wheel of ka turns and the world moves on.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Waste Lands

“And fire was evil stuff that delighted in escaping the hands which created it.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Waste Lands

“Wait or me where the trees clear and the water's sweet. I'll come to ye, ay, as sure as dawn makes shadows run west.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Waste Lands

“In the end, all things, even the Beams, serve the Dark Tower. Did you think you would be any different?”
― Stephen King, quote from The Waste Lands

“Fasten your seatbelts and prepare for turbulence: you’re flying into . . . the Roland Zone!”
― Stephen King, quote from The Waste Lands

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