OK, now I'm posting my favorite. Although Eddie is my favorite character, the line goes to Sheemie, who after being bit on the rear end by Caprichoso "That hurts like...like a big old sonovabitch!"
OK, now I'm posting my favorite. Although Eddie is my favorite character, the line goes to Sheemie, who after being bit on the rear end by Caprichoso "That hurts like...like a big old sonovabitch!"
I feel every quote makes me want to re-read the books again.Originally Posted by Disincarnate
I really love this thread. It makes me want to re-read the books again.
Also, this quote is one of my favorites.
Roland would have understood.
Thanks!
Wilbur - you are my new hero.
After Roland, of course.
no problem Hotbaud. You just happened to catch me rereading the series again and it's all still fresh. I'm reading it to my wife who has never read DT, this makes my 7th read.
another quote, this one from WoC
"Taters and gravy are good." Suze
I've been considering getting "there are other worlds than these..." added to my Roland tattoo. That quote by Jake goes in my top 5 for sure.
Oh, and I determined that DT has two types of memorable quotes: 1. The really epic ones that give you shivers. And 2. The ridiculously hilarious ones that get their charm from the character of the person saying them. For instance:
"That hurts like...like a big old sonovabitch!"
Wow, some quotes here just make me want to go and re-read the whole saga all over again.
Here are some quotes from TDOTT that I really like:
Susannah
“I love you, Eddie. You have tried so hard. Been so patient. So has he - ” she nodded toward the place where the gunslinger lay propped against the rocks, watching. “– but he is a hard man to love.”
Eddie Dean
As Henry Dean, the great sage and eminent junkie would have put it, Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life’s a fiction and the world’s a lie, so put on some Creedence and let’s get high.
(I have to say that In spite of all that has been said about him, Henry is one of my favourite characters)
Roland
"If we were going to rape you, you would be one well-raped woman by now"
"...the most horrible fact of human existence is that broken hearts mend."
Where was it and who said it?
Roland would have understood.
It's in W&G, Chapter 4, part 2:
He tried to tell them he was all right, they could stand back, he was fine, but no words would come out; that terrible wavery sound had transported him back to the box canyon west of Hambry all those years ago. Depape and Reynolds and old limping Jonas. Yet most of all it was the woman from the hill he hated, and from black depths of feeling only a very young man can reach. Ah, but how could he have done aught else but hate them? His heart had been broken. And now, all these years later, it seemed to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended.
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks a lot, Jean. Deep thought.
Roland would have understood.
A couple that come to mind:
if we were going to rape you, you'd be one well raped woman by now!
There are other worlds than these.
I have not traveled across all the years to listen to your childdish pratting ( plus the entire speech Roland gives when Blane tries muscling them at the start of the riddling)
This one is probably my favorite;
"First come smiles, then comes lies. Last is gunfire"
I like the quotes in my sig.
I regret leaving my soul
I forgot I needed it, to feel
maybe when I die
I'll just grab it real quick
" 'Excited the enmity of,That's a good phrase. Round. I intend to remember it and use it at every opportunity."~Cuthbert
"All things serve the beam."
Have it on a T-shirt and love it when I get stopped by random strangers commenting on it!
Also, 'cry your pardon'. I always, always use it when excusing myself (at first as a deliberate homage, but now its my natural way of saying 'excuse me', or 'sorry') and sometimes the wtf looks I get are priceless.
''I'll set my watch and warrant on it''
And the exchange ''long days and pleasant nights'' ''May you have twice the number'' is lovely!
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we must not forget that everything started with this quote... CLASSIC!
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"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
[QUOTE=Sickrose;449335]''I'll set my watch and warrant on it''
And the exchange ''long days and pleasant nights'' ''May you have twice the number'' is lovely!
---> me too i find it really charming!
It's more than just saying ''nice to meet you'' I think it suggests a connection between the two people. Maybe thats just me though!
---> believe me its not just you...
i find CALLA people way of talking really charming
Yep. Love the calla folken way of talking. Was talking to a girl in a bar a while ago but had to leave to meet some friends. As I left, I shook her hand and said 'we were well met weren't we?'---> believe me its not just you...
i find CALLA people way of talking really charming
Sadly she didn't get the reference. The search for the perfect girl goes on...
Oh, I love it when people make references to the Dark Tower in regular conversation. I once had a professor say "It's Turtles all the way down." I wanted to ask him if he was quoting Song of Susannah but didnt' have the chance.
Favorite quotes: this one from The Gunslinger always stuck in my mind because it reminds us of how confused Jake is in that book:
"Never mind. You wouldn't know what I was talking about. I don't even know what I'm talking about, not anymore."
The Drawing of the Three, b/c it sets up the first part of WasteLands:
Eddie to Roland: "Who's gonna come through some magic door and save you, man? Do you know? I do. No one. You've drawn all that you could draw."
The Waste Lands (there are so many, but I dont' want to use some that have already been posted):
"You let me drop," Jake said to the man in the poster, the man who was not Roland. "You let me die. What happens this time?"
And there are loads of others, but time is up.
Following few of my fav quotes from DT:
The first is definitely;
"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."
"Go then, there are other worlds than these."
"The Tower. Somewhere ahead, it waited for him - the nexus of Time, the nexus of Size."
"Beyond the reach of human range, a drop of hell, a touch of strange"
"Only equals speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard."
"Time is a face on the water"
"First come smiles, then comes lies. Last is gunfire."
“The devil's voice is sweet to hear.”
-SK.
There are too many lines in this series to really choose just one, or even two for that matter, but nonetheless, I don't have time to look them all up.
"Right now I feel as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rocking chairs."
Eddie Dean
"If this is to be my last sight of you, which my heart says it is, then don't let it be of you on your knees. You're not a kneeling man, Roland, son of Steven, never were, and I don't want to remember you that way."
Susannah Dean
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