“He had no wish to die; but there were moments, after Grace left, when he looked forward impatiently, as one might look to the moment of a journey that one does not particularly wish to take. And like a traveler, he felt that there were many things he had to do before he left; yet he could not think what they were.”
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“He was forty-two years old, and he could see nothing before him that he wished to enjoy and little behind him that he cared to remember.”
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“He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activities in the square and he said that it was good the God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.”
― All the Pretty Horses
― All the Pretty Horses
“You know what a blivet is?
What.
A blivet is ten pounds of shit in a five pound sack.”
― All the Pretty Horses
What.
A blivet is ten pounds of shit in a five pound sack.”
― All the Pretty Horses
“And so he left things as they were. Without realizing it, he was beginning to defer his problems in the hope that death would resolve them,”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
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