Ray

“Mercy is in the province of the person alone. There is mass hatred and mass grief. Mass vengeance and even mass suicide. But there is no mass forgiveness. There is only you.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

“To live is to betray your God. Every act in life, every act that affirms us as living beings, requires that the commandments of your God be broken.”
― Carlos Fuentes, The Death of Artemio Cruz

“Grief is the stuff of life. A life without grief is no life at all. But regret is a prison. Some part of you which you deeply value lies forever impaled at a crossroads you can no longer find and never forget.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

“It was still dark and the fire had long since died, still dark and quiet with that silence that seems to be of itself listening,”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper