73 ratings (3.85 avg)
0 reviews

Allie

Add friend

Allie’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (37)

currently-reading‎ (0)

read‎ (76)

did-not-finish‎ (0)

Stats | More…

Allie’s Quotes

“Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

230 likes

“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

tags: healing, injuries, memory, past, reality, scars, time

2795 likes

“Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing

tags: god

277 likes

“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
― E.B. White

tags: activism, humor, life, pleasure

9226 likes

“He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world’s pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

tags: beauty, pain

300 likes

More of Allie’s quotes…