Jacob Petrella

“It’s just that the passing of time is irrevocably the passing of you. And then nothing. I suppose it should be a comfort to understand that one cannot be dead forever where there’s no forever to be dead in. Well. I see your look. I know that you see me enfettered in some cognitive morass and I’m sure that you would contend it to be the ultimate solipsism to believe that the world ceases when you do. But I’ve no other way to look”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

“And I woke up and as I woke up the dream began to dissolve. The dream and the story of the dream. And I knew that in the dream was an understanding that was simply a gift and it was receding in the darkness and I sat up in bed and called out after it but it simply fell to pieces in my mind [ . . . ]”
― Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris

“You shouldnt worry about what people think of you because they dont do it that often”
― Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris

“when you close your eyes do I go away? Do you?”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger