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“They want to be the agents, not the victims, of history. They identify with God’s power and believe they are godlike. That is their basic madness.”

“Not now, cancer, there’s a wedding! Then an anniversary, a birthday. Come back when we’re not so busy.”

“I came to realize that while I struggled to be good, I could excel at being courageous.”

“Understand one another? I fear I am beyond your comprehension. But you, Saruman, I understand now too well.”

“It is difficult with these evil folk to know when they are in league, and when they are cheating one another.”

“But oft the unbidden guest proves the best company.”

“We love our parents not because they are perfect but because they persevere despite their imperfections. We all fall short of grace, but the beauty lives in the attempt.”

“Love may not endure, but fear fails when a man’s had enough.”

“They are never going to let this go. They are going to bleed us like vampires until we’re broke. Until we run out of blood.”

“Ancestry stretched marionette strings down through a generation of couplings, of sighs, of long winter days and champagne Saturday nights, to make them move with unpracticed synchronicity.”

This book went 0-100 double-time

“I have returned. For behold! the storm comes, and now all friends should gather together, lest each be singly destroyed.” p.512

“How much violence, Marshal, do you think a man can carry before it breaks him?” p.170

“Yet you comfort me. Where you go, I will go.” p.491

“I do not like worrying about the future.”

“If I ever had a son, I don’t know if I’d let him go to war. Even a war like that where we had no choice. I’m not sure that should be asked of anyone.” p.128

“There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.” p.441

“You give the choice to an ill chooser.” p.426

“You wear out, Ed Tom. All the time you spend tryin to get back what’s been took from you there’s more goin out the door.” p.267

“I wake up sometimes way in the night and I know certain as death that there aint nothin short of the second comin of Christ that can slow this train. I dont know what is the use of me layin awake over it. But I do.” p.159

“People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they dont deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things. I dont recall that I ever give the good Lord all that much cause to smile on me. But he did.” p.91

It’s a mess, aint it Sheriff?
If it aint it’ll do till a mess gets here.

“But come! With or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter!” p.420

(finished The Fellowship, starting The Two Towers)

“I have tried to catch him once or twice at night; but he is slier than a fox, and as slippery as a fish. I hoped the river-voyage would beat him, but he is too clever a waterman.” p.384

“Remember that imagined choices don’t actually exist, because they’re not actionable. We’re not trying to live a fantasy life; we’re trying to design a real and livable life.”

“It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.” p.64

“Anything can be an instrument, Chigurh said. Small things. Things you wouldnt even notice. They pass from hand to hand. People dont pay attention. And then one day there’s an accounting. And after that nothing is the same.” p.57