You have my whole heart. You always did.
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The Road
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This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don’t give up.
If you break the little promises, you’ll break big ones.
I will do what I promised." He whispered. "No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone.
Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence.
No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things 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.
If only my heart were stone.
When you die it's the same as if everybody else did too.
Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.
If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn’t believe in that. Tomorrow wasn’t getting ready for them. It didn’t even know they were there.
If you break the little promises, you’ll break big ones.
Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever…
You have my whole heart. You always did.
This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don’t give up.
If you break the little promises, you’ll break big ones.
People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn’t believe in that. Tomorrow wasn’t getting ready for them. It didn’t even know they were there.
Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. You forget some things, dont you? Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.