Quotes from Cormac McCarthy

What was it you said? After the math comes the aftermath?

We could of brought weeners, she said. Yeah. Marshmallers. You wouldnt think a car would burn like that.

Were there darker provinces of night he would have found them.

People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things. I don't recall that I ever give the good Lord all that much cause to smile on me. But he did.

Diabolical on the other hand is all but synonymous with ingenious. What Satan had for sale in the garden was knowledge.

You can think of me as a faithless slut if you like. I've taken a new lover. He can give me what you cannot. Death is not a lover. Oh yes he is.

Do you think horses understand what people say? I aint sure most people do.

The snow whispered down in the stillness and the sparks rose and dimmed and died in the eternal blackness.

The shape of the city stood in the grayness like a charcoal drawing sketched across the waste.

I believe that we are arks of the covenant and our true nature is not rage or deceit or terror or logic or craft or even sorrow. It is longing.

In the nights in their thousands to dream the dreams of a child's imaginings, worlds rich or fearful such as might offer themselves but never the one to be.

They struggled forever in the roads cold coagulate.