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Back Quotes by Cormac McCarthy
- They sat on a bench and Sproule held his wounded arm to his chest and rocked back and forth and blinked in the sun. What…
- Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of…
- It was the nature of his profession that his experience with death should be greater than for most and he said that while it was…
- When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God he would…
- You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you.
- All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just…
- You can tell it any way you want but that's the way it is. I should of done it and I didn’t. And some part…
- I didn't mean I'd seen everything, John Grady said. I know you didn't. I just meant I'd seen some things I'd as soon not of.…
- Lying under such a myriad of stars. The sea’s black horizon. He rose and walked out and stood barefoot in the sand and watched the…
- He looked at a world of incredible loveliness. Old distaff Celt's blood in some back chamber of his brain moved him to discourse with the…
- He lay on his back in his blankets and looked our where the quartermoon lay cocked over the heel of the mountains. In the false…
- By early evening all the sky to the north had darkened and the spare terrain they trod had turned a neuter gray as far as…
- In the spring or warmer weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and the snow reveals…
- Each leaf that brushed his face deepened his sadness and dread. Each leaf he passed he'd never pass again. They rode over his face like…
- The hardest lesson in the world: Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back.
- Your god must once have stood at a dawn of infinite possibilities, and this is what he's made of it. You tell me that I…
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