“Your old man called me. He wanted you to call home. People in hell want ice water.” — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“You think people was meaner then than they are now? the deputy said. The old man was looking out at the flooded… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Lost ye way in the dark, said the old man. He stirred the fire, standing slender tusks of bone up out of… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Before he reached the door the old man called to him again. The boy turned and stood. The matrix will not help… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“And what happens then? When? After you're dead. Dont nothing happen. You're dead. You told me once you believed in God. The… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“When he was gone the men on the bench began to laugh. One of them rose to better see the map. Es… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“I've seen all I want to see and I know all I want to know. I just look forward to death. He… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“I am here because of a certain man. I came to retrace his steps. Perhaps to see if there were not some… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“He told the boy that although he was huérfano still he must cease his wanderings and make for himself some place in… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Already it is twilight down in the Laredito. Bats fly forth from their roostings in courthouse and tower and circle the quarter.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The cooler days have brought a wistful mood upon him. The smell of coalsmoke in the air at night. Old times, dead years. For… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“The events of the world can have no separate life from the world. And yet the world itself can have no temporal view of… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“I had two dreams about him after he died. I dont remember the first one all that well but it was about meetin him… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“You think people was meaner then than they are now? the deputy said. The old man was looking out at the flooded town. No,… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“They set forth in a crimson dawn where sky and earth closed in a razorous plane. Out there dark little archipelagos of cloud and… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Nothing. Where all was burnt to ash before them no fires were to be had and the nights were long and dark and cold… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“He lives in a room above a courtyard behind a tavern and he comes down at night like some fairybook beast to fight with… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Ultimo hombre. Last man standing, must've been one. Where'd he go?” — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“To seek out the upright. No fall but preceded by a declination. He took great marching steps into the nothingness, counting them against his… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“They went through the last of the cars and then walked up the track to the locomotive and climbed up to the catwalk. Rust… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Night fell upon them dark and starblown and the wagon grew swollen near mute with dew. On their chairs in such black immobility these… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
