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.

All that was missing was a neon sign that read EVIL AND CONFLICTED ABOUT IT with a flashing arrow pointing at his head.

Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.

paithin- … he is orn! mother peytin’s son, come to lead us to safety!”zifnab- thats it! orn, favors his mother-roland- no, he doesnt. look! hes human! wouldnt mother whats- her – name’s kid be and...

The trap had a ghastly perfection

The worse thing you can do in a fight is stop moving. When someone attacks, they create force, movement, momentum, but you’ll be okay as long as you can see and feel the direction of...

A gunslinger knows pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.

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

At the end of her life she was aware of heat but not pain. She had time to consider his eyes, eyes of that blue which is the color of the sky at first light...

The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go

the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.

They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.

They were close to the end of the beginning . . .

Once again there was the desert, and that only.