Scott

“We’ve been a long time without a nuclear war. Yes. Well, it’s probably like any bankruptcy. The longer you’re able to put it off the worse it’s going to be. The next great war wont arrive until everyone who remembers the last one is dead.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris

“At what age in a child’s life does rage become sorrow?”
― Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris

“People from the other side will seem odd to you. And you will never understand the latitude which they extend to you.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris

“You told me of a dream once that you may or may not remember. Rather curious. We were moving along a stone wall in a slurry of ash. A scene of ruin. There were dark flowers hanging over the wall. Carnivorous flowers, you thought them. Black and leathery in appearance. Like a dog’s cunt, you said. We sat in the rubble waiting. Finally a phone rang. Do you remember? Yes. I answered and listened and then I said no and then I hung up the phone. And in the dream you asked me what they had said and I told you that they wanted to know if we knew anything about them. And I said no. And they said: We didnt think so. And then they hung up. You were the dreamer. Yet if I’d not told you what they said would you have known? I dont know.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger