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In the grueling light that passed for day...
— Cormac McCarthy
They sell that shit to schoolkids. It's worse than that. How's that? Schoolkids buy it.
— Cormac McCarthy
I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.
— Cormac McCarthy
Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold.
— Cormac McCarthy
The hundred nights they'd sat up arguing the pros and cons of self destruction with the earnestness of philosophers chained to a madhouse wall
— Cormac McCarthy
Do you think God knows what's happenin?I expect he does.
You think he can stop it?
No. I dont. — Cormac McCarthy
The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.
— Cormac McCarthy
Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupation of men engaged in rash undertakings.
— Cormac McCarthy
The spotlight kept rowing back and forth across the face of the ridge. Methodically. Bright shuttle, dark loom.
— Cormac McCarthy
There was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were.
— Cormac McCarthy
Ever step you take is forever.
— Cormac McCarthy
Each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins.
— Cormac McCarthy
They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship's wake.
— Cormac McCarthy
Glass flowers exploding. Slow trail of colors down the sky like stains dispersing in the sea, candescent polyps extinguished in the depths.
— Cormac McCarthy
Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.
— Cormac McCarthy
God made this world, but he didn't make it to suit everybody, did he?
— Cormac McCarthy
The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries.
— Cormac McCarthy
Cormac and I have an understanding."Erik raises an eyebrow. Clearly he's got the wrong idea.
"Don't worry. It's a death-threat thing. — Gennifer Albin
It's like a lot of things, said the smith. Do the least part of it wrong and ye'd just as well to do it all wrong.
— Cormac McCarthy
He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all.
— Cormac McCarthy
Gray vines coiled leftward in this northern hemisphere, what winds them shapes the dogwhelk's shell. Weeds sprouted from cinder and brick.
— Cormac McCarthy
Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not"-Judge Holden — Cormac McCarthy
One thing about me, when I'm wrong I'll admit it. Well. That's a good trait to have.
— Cormac McCarthy
So, Cormac, have you ever dealt with a PMSing werewolf?'No.'
Well, it's a real bitch ... — Carrie Vaughn
They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.
— Cormac McCarthy
It's a life's work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong. And that is something I don't want to be wrong about.
— Cormac McCarthy
Ever's a long time.
— Cormac McCarthy
Dying ain't in people's plans, is it?
— Cormac McCarthy
When you die it's the same as if everybody else did too.
— Cormac McCarthy
This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.
— Cormac McCarthy
It's a mess, aint it Sheriff?If it aint it'll do till a mess gets here. — Cormac McCarthy
The boy's candlecolored skin was all but translucent.
— Cormac McCarthy
People don't pay attention. And then one day there's an accounting. And after that, nothing is the same.
— Cormac McCarthy
Oh, my god, you moron, she's one of us. She's a Keeper! Humans don't spit bullets back out! I gotta go get Cormac. This isn't good.
— Donna Augustine
Can't stop what's coming. Ain't no waiting on you. That's vanity.
— Cormac McCarthy
You say you can't? Then don't do it. That's all.
— Cormac McCarthy
If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with.
— Cormac McCarthy
What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream
— Cormac McCarthy
If there is an occupational hazard to writing, it's drinking.
— Cormac McCarthy
What's the bravest thing you ever did?He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said. — Cormac McCarthy
This is a terrible place to die in.Where's a good one? — Cormac McCarthy
There's a kind of man that when he cant have what he wants he wont take the next best thing but the worst he can find.
— Cormac McCarthy
She smiled. I think it's just the snow. I think it makes people stop and think.Bell nodded. I hope it comes a blizzard then. — Cormac McCarthy
The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas
— Cormac McCarthy
Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire.
— Cormac McCarthy
They came upon themselves in a mirror and he almost raised the pistol. It's us, Papa, the boy whispered. It's us.
— Cormac McCarthy
It is always one's stance upon uncertain ground that invites the attentions of one's enemies. Or discourages it.
— Cormac McCarthy
Sparse on the mesa the dry weeds lashed in the wind like the earth's long echo of lance and spear in old encounters forever unrecorded.
— Cormac McCarthy
We're like the Comanches was two hundred years ago. We don't know what's goin to show up here come daylight. We don't even know what color they'll be.
— Cormac McCarthy
There ain't no law in Mexico. It's just a pack of rogues.
— Cormac McCarthy
My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold and anything else is just a waste of time.
— Cormac McCarthy
Boyd aint goin nowhere. If I am he is. Boyd's a juvenile. They aint goin to turn him over to you. Hell. You're a juvenile yourself. I aint askin.
— Cormac McCarthy
There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.
— Cormac McCarthy
He can give me what you cannot. Death is not a lover. Oh yes, he is.
— Cormac McCarthy
A malign star kept him.
— Cormac McCarthy
There is no God and we are his prophets.
— Cormac McCarthy
When your dreams are of some world that never was or of some world that never will be, and you are happy again, then you will have given up.
— Cormac McCarthy
We none of us knew him to speak [Dutch]. Asked him where he'd learned it you know what he said?What did he say.
Said off a Dutchman. — Cormac McCarthy
The hardest lesson in the world:Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back. — Cormac McCarthy
From thinking about your sweet face between my legs.
— Cormac McCarthy
Are you no afraid of God? I got no reason to be afraid of God. I've even got a bone or two to pick with Him. You
— Cormac McCarthy
How can you believe in heaven if you don't believe in hell?
— Cormac McCarthy
What joins men together ... is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
— Cormac McCarthy
That the boy was all that stood between him and death.
— Cormac McCarthy
It's the tide. It's the dismal tide. It's not the one thing.
— Cormac McCarthy
The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
— Cormac McCarthy
Hey, Cormac. You ever have to deal with a PMSing werewolf?
— Carrie Vaughn
like most men skilled at their work they were scornful of any least suggestion of knowing anything not learned at first hand.
— Cormac McCarthy
He tried to read her heart in her handclasp but he knew nothing.
— Cormac McCarthy
Goodness will find the little boy. It always has. It will again.
— Cormac McCarthy
A dream inside a dream might not be a dream.
— Cormac McCarthy
She said that the breath of God was his breath yet though it pass from man to man through all of time.
— Cormac McCarthy
On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.
— Cormac McCarthy
Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.
— Cormac McCarthy
I ain't got an original thought in my head. If it ain't got the scent of divinity to it, I ain't interested in it
— Cormac McCarthy
You fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation.
— Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.
— Tommy Lee Jones
There's a difference between quittin and knowin when you're beat.
— Cormac McCarthy
I know your kind, he said. What's wrong with you is wrong all the way through you.
— Cormac McCarthy
Look around you, he said. There is no prophet in the earth's long chronicle who's not honored here today. Whatever form you spoke of you were right.
— Cormac McCarthy
Usually, you don't know where a book comes from ... it's just there, some kind of an itch that you can't quite scratch.
— Cormac McCarthy
The voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such things as lives in silence themselves.
— Cormac McCarthy
Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.
— Cormac McCarthy
There's too much shit still down the road that I got to deal with. It aint goin to end here.
— Cormac McCarthy
If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around.
— Cormac McCarthy
Men believe the cure for war is war as the curandero prescribes the serpent's flesh for its bite.
— Cormac McCarthy
And I said no ma'am I just aim to quit. I ain't ahead by a damn sight. I never will be.
— Cormac McCarthy
I was a Mormon. Then I converted to the church. Then I became I dont know what. Then I became me.
— Cormac McCarthy
I dont know how it would of turned out if I hadnt worried.
— Cormac McCarthy
He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
— Cormac McCarthy
