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The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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"You forget what you desire to recall, and you remember what you want to forget."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"Nobody wants to exist hither and nobody wants to get out."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Route

"Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. Yous could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your manus. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a matter which could not be put back. Non exist made correct again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"There is no God and we are his prophets."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a cursory moment the accented truth of the earth. 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 basis-foxes in their cover. Borrowed fourth dimension and borrowed globe and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow information technology."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"Just remember that the things yous put into your head are there forever, he said. Y'all might want to think about that.
You forget some things, dont you?
Yes. You forget what y'all want to remember and you remember what you desire to forget."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Route

"Keep a little fire burning; all the same small, however hidden."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Route

"What's the bravest thing yous ever did?
He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting upward this morning, he said."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"You take my whole heart. You lot ever did."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"If trouble comes when you lot least expect information technology and then maybe the matter to do is to always look it."
― 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

"You accept to carry the fire."
I don't know how to."
Yes, you do."
Is the fire existent? The burn down?"
Yep information technology is."
Where is it? I don't know where it is."
Yes you do. It's inside yous. It always was at that place. I tin can encounter information technology."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Route

"Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"When you lot die it's the same as if everybody else did likewise."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Route

"If only my heart were stone."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Route

"Mind to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never will be, and you're happy again, and then you'll take given up. Practise you understand? And you can't give up, I won't let you."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Route

"If you break little promises, you lot'll break big ones."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Route

"And so they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world unabridged."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Route

"No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The 60 minutes. There is no afterwards. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to 1's heart take a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Route

"Where men can't live gods fare no better."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Route

"By twenty-four hour period the banished dominicus circles the globe like a grieving female parent with a lamp."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"Query: How does the never to exist differ from what never was?"
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"What would you lot exercise if I died?
If you died I would want to die also.
And so you could be with me?
Yeah. So I could be with you.
Okay."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no fourth dimension. Now is the time. Curse God and die."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"When ane has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Route

"The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into pettiness and night. The terminal instance of a affair takes the class with information technology. Turns out the light and is gone. Await around yous. Always is a long fourth dimension. Only the boy knew what he knew. That e'er is no time at all."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Route

"Perhaps in the world's devastation it would exist possible at final to see how information technology was fabricated. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"When he went back to the burn down he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God he would have made the world just so and no different."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"You have my whole heart. You e'er did. You're the all-time guy. Yous always were."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"He thought each retentivity recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and laissez passer it on. And so exist sparing. What you alter in the remembering has nonetheless a reality, known or non."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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