Markus Endresen’s Reviews > The Road > Status Update

‘No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All thing of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes. So, he whispered to the sleeping boy, I have you.’ P.55

The way he writes is breathtaking.

bleak, but simplar than I was expecting so far. i feel less lost in the beautiful language, descriptions and dialouge as other McCarthy stories, but rather lost in the vivid tone and bleak hopeless love. excited to see where this goes