Accomplices Quote by Cormac McCarthy

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

“Ultimo hombre. Last man standing, must've been one. Where'd he go?”

— Cormac McCarthy

“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

“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

“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