Cormac McCarthy, The Road
"There is no God and we are his prophets."
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"There is no God and we are his prophets."
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
"Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die. What if it doesn't fire? It has to fire. Could you crush that beloved skull with a rock?"
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
"When we're all gone at last then there'll be nobody here but death and his days will be numbered too. He'll be out in the road there with nothing to do and nobody to do it to. He'll say: where did everybody go? And that's how it will be. What's wrong with that?"
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
"This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job."
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
"And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. Like certain ancient frescoes entombed for centuries suddenly exposed to the day."
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
"Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie."
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
"Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die."
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
"Carry the fire."
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
"Then he just knelt in the ashes. He raised his face to the paling day. Are you there? he whispered. Will I see you at the last? Have you a neck by which to throttle you? Have you a heart? Damn you eternally have you a soul? Oh God, he whispered, Oh God."
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
"He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke."
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
"Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden."
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
"He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he."
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
"Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave."
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
"Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. You forget some things, dont you?Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget."
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
"He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it."
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
"People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there."
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
"You have my whole heart. You always did."
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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