Stephen King

In this first novel in his epic fantasy masterpiece, Stephen King introduces readers to one of his most enigmatic heroes, Roland of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner, on a spellbinding journey into good and evil, in a desolate world which frighteningly echoes our own.

In his first step towards the powerful and mysterious Dark Tower, Roland encounters an alluring woman named Alice, begins a friendship with Jake, a kid from New York, and faces an agonising choice between damnation and salvation as he pursues the Man in Black.

The Dark Tower I

The Gunslinger

Stephanie 

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

[…] the mule was at the end of its endurance, only living because it was a habit.

This is so true. Ever tried to not think about something? 🫠

Because, if given a knife and a hand in which to hold it, the mind would eventually eat itself. 

Not because it wanted to; because it did 

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

‘I don’t like people. They fuck me up.’

'Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?'

'Only equals speak the truth, that’s my thought on’t. 

Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard.'

The Gunslinger quotes

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