Black and white Quote by Dianne Duvall

“Roland was so used to the pervasive sense of failure that he was unprepared for the blood-rush of success. He breathed differently. The dingy…

— A.S. Byatt

“Roland shook his head slowly. There was a lesson here, he realized, not a shining thing but something that was old and rusty and…

— Stephen King

“Roland’s heart seemed to twist like a rag inside his chest, and there was a moment to wonder how it could possibly go on…

— Stephen King

“You are the world’s last adventurer. The last crusader. How that must please you, Roland!”

— Stephen King

“There was an argument in the background, interrupting Roland. “Woman! I will get out of this bed when the Lord grants me the strength…

— Shayne Silvers

“For a moment I felt a vicious hatred for him and his quiet ways, his mundane stroll through the summer, his ordinariness, the banality…

— Colum McCann

“He lay in his stony crypt like his own corpse, hardly breathing, his heart hardly beating - and yet lived as intensively and dissolutely…

— Patrick Süskind

“I’ve come to know him well, and have discovered that shrouded behind his touchy and volatile exterior, there crouches a warm and considerate human…

— Karl Wiggins

“Roland had learned to see himself, theoretically, as a crossing-place for a number of systems, all loosely connected. He had been trained to see…

— A.S. Byatt

“He was a precocious and delicate little boy, quivering with the malaise of being unloved. When we played, his child's heart would come into…

— Harold Brodkey

“He was thirty-six years old, and six foot three. He spoke English to people and French to cats, and Latin to the birds. He…

— Katherine Rundell

“He was an animal. He was terrifying. And he was beautiful. I realized that I was biting my lip, that my hand was wound…

— Delilah S. Dawson