“Looking over the country with those sunken eyes as if the world out there had been altered or made suspect by what he'd seen of it elsewhere. As if he might never see it right again. Or worse did see it right at last. See it as it had always been, would forever be.” IfsWorldMadeCountryMightEyeLastsForeverSuspectsElsewhereAlteredAll The Pretty Horses Book:All the Pretty Horses Source: All the Pretty Horses
“The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The truth is rather that if there were no God then there could be no witness for there could be no identity to the world but only each man's opinion of it. The priest saw that there is no man who is elect because there is no man who is not. To God every man is a heretic.” IfsMenWorldNeedsOpinionSawsIdentityTruth IsEvery ManWitnessPriestsHeretic Book:The Crossing: Book 2 of The Border Trilogy Source: The Crossing: Book 2 of The Border Trilogy
“I don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful, it will make little difference whether she lives at all.” IfsKnowsWorldShouldLittlesDoeValuesDifferencesOpinionFixedOpportunism Author:Cormac McCarthy
“This place aint the same. It never will be. Maybe we've all got a little crazy. I guess if everbody went crazy together nobody would notice, what do you think?” IfsThinkingLittlesTogetherCrazy Book:The Border Trilogy Source: The Border Trilogy
“I ain't got an original thought in my head. If it ain't got the scent of divinity to it, I ain't interested in it” IfsOriginalsDivinityScentOriginal Thought Author:Cormac McCarthy
“Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.” IfsRememberBlackMorningHairStormPerpetualSavagesLoveliness Book:Suttree Source: Suttree
