“He wondered where the blind man was going and did he know how the road ended. Someone should tell a blind man before setting him out that way.”
― Outer Dark
― Outer Dark
“They were saddened that [Rawlins] was not coming back but they said that a man leaves much when he leaves his own country. They said that it was no accident of circumstance that a man be born in a certain country and not some other and they said that the weathers and seasons that form a land form also the inner fortunes of men in their generations and are passed on to their children and are not so easily come by otherwise.”
― All the Pretty Horses
― All the Pretty Horses
“That god lives in silence who has scoured the following land with salt and ash.”
― No Country for Old Men
― No Country for Old Men
“Suffering feels religious if you do it right.”
― Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
― Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
“Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.”
― An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.”
― An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
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