the only mortal sin is giving up.
Although emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers are short on empathy. That comes later in life, if it comes at all.
The poets continually and sometimes wilfully mistake love. Love is the old slaughterer.
It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
I hold to no God," Roland said. "I hold to the Tower, and won't pray to that.
Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have run out of gas can keep coasting anyway, propelled on to the bestseller lists by the magic words AUTHOR OF on the covers of their books.