Mariah

“There was light all about him.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie. There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue. As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“But who will find him if he’s lost? Who will find the little boy? Goodness will find the little boy. It always has. It will again.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“They went on. In the nights sometimes now he’d wake in the black and freezing waste out of softly colored worlds of human love, the songs of birds, the sun.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road