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“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“But I will tell you Squire that having read even a few dozen books in common is a force more binding than blood.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

“Mercy is in the province of the person alone. There is mass hatred and mass grief. Mass vengeance and even mass suicide. But there is no mass forgiveness. There is only you.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

“If you had to say something definitive about the world in a single sentence what would that sentence be?
It would be this: the world has created no living thing that it does not intend to destroy.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris

“Beauty makes promises that beauty cant keep.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

“He thought that God’s goodness appeared in strange places. Dont close your eyes.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

“Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris

“People will go to strange lengths to avoid the suffering they have coming.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

“Here is a story. The last of all men who stands alone in the universe while it darkens about him. Who sorrows all things with a single sorrow. Out of the pitiable and exhausted remnants of what was once his soul he’ll find nothing from which to craft the least thing godlike to guide him in these last of days.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

“I think people regret what they didnt do more than what they did. I think everbody has things they failed to do. You cant see what is coming, Bobby. And if you could it is no guarantee you’d make the right choice even then. I believe in God’s design.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

“We dont move through the days, Squire. They move through us.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

“I suppose in the end what we have to offer is only what we've lost.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

“I've studied much and learned little.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”
― Leo Tolstoy