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The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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"You forget what you want to remember, and you call back what you want to forget."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"Nobody wants to be hither and nobody wants to leave."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Route

"Once in that location were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could encounter them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your mitt. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the earth in its condign. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be fabricated right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than human being and they hummed of mystery."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Route

"There is no God and nosotros are his prophets."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a cursory moment the absolute truth of the world. The common cold relentless circling of the intestate globe. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The burdensome black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere 2 hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed fourth dimension and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow information technology."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"Just remember that the things yous put into your head are there forever, he said. Y'all might want to think nigh that.
You forget some things, dont you?
Yes. You forget what you want to retrieve and y'all remember what you want to forget."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"Keep a little fire called-for; nonetheless small, however hidden."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Route

"What's the bravest affair you ever did?
He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"You have my whole heart. You always did."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Route

"If trouble comes when you least expect it and then maybe the affair to practise is to always expect information technology."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"You have to carry the burn."
I don't know how to."
Yes, you do."
Is the fire existent? The burn down?"
Yep it is."
Where is it? I don't know where information technology is."
Aye yous do. It'southward within yous. It ever was at that place. I tin see it."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"Borrowed time and borrowed earth and borrowed optics with which to sorrow it."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"When you die it'due south the same as if everybody else did too."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Route

"If simply my heart were stone."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some globe that never will be, and you lot're happy once more, and so you'll take given up. Do you understand? And you can't give up, I won't allow you."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"If yous break little promises, you'll break big ones."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Route

"And then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal low-cal, shuffling through the ash, each the other'south world entire."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no subsequently. This is afterward. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's centre have a mutual provenance in pain. Their nascency in grief and ashes."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"Where men can't live gods fare no ameliorate."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Route

"Past day the banished sun circles the earth similar a grieving female parent with a lamp."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?"
― Cormac McCarthy, The Route

"What would you do if I died?
If you lot died I would want to die likewise.
And then y'all could be with me?
Yes. So I could be with you.
Okay."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"Tin you do information technology? When the time comes? When the time comes there volition exist no fourth dimension. Now is the time. Curse God and die."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"When i has null left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling bug resolved into pettiness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the grade with it. Turns out the low-cal and is gone. Look around you lot. Always is a long fourth dimension. But the male child knew what he knew. That always is no fourth dimension at all."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Route

"Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to meet how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God he would have made the world simply so and no different."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"You have my whole heart. Yous always did. You're the best guy. Y'all always were."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"He thought each retention recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on. And so be sparing. What yous alter in the remembering has however a reality, known or not."
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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