He looked back at them, and Eddie saw something he had never expected to see in his life—not even if that life stretched over a thousand years. Roland of Gilead was weeping.

“I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another…”

“The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.”

“It’s not supposed to end this way. Whatever else Roland and his ka-tet knows, t…”

“A large praying mantis was performing ablutions on the springy stem of the kid'…”