Thomas Hale

“You have my whole heart. You always did.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain

“War was an illness in a way, treatable only by the passing of time, and many were stricken until the end of their days.”
― Benjamin Myers, The Offing

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms