# Quote — Stephen King, The Waste Lands

> Blaine is a pain, and that is the truth.Yet his heart, that silent, watchful, lifelong prisoner of Ka, received the words of this promise not just with wonder but with doubt.

- Author: [Stephen King](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king.md)
- Book: [The Waste Lands](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/the-waste-lands.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Dark_Tower_(series)#Vol._III:_The_Waste_Lands) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/the-waste-lands/blaine-is-a-pain

## More from this book

> The gunslinger let me drop, and that is the truth; I still love him, and that is the truth

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> Dad-a-chum,dud-a-chee,not to worry, you've got the key.

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> Choo-Choo, thought Jake, and shuddered.

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