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The Road

NATIONAL BESTSELLER PULITZER PRIZE WINNER National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A New York Times Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor

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Cormac McCarthy (23)

“You have my whole heart. You always did.”

— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com

Tagged: whole heart

“This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don’t give up.”

— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com

Tagged: Good Guys, Don't Give Up

“If you break the little promises, you’ll break big ones.”

— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com

Tagged: break promises

“I will do what I promised." He whispered. "No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone.”

— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Promise, Companion, Darkness

“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.”

— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com

Tagged: Destruction, Creation, Silence, Emptiness

“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.”

— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com

Tagged: To-Do List, Day, Hour, Time, Grief

“If only my heart were stone.”

— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com

Tagged: heart, Stone, Numb, Weak

“When you die it's the same as if everybody else did too.”

— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com

Tagged: Death, Dying

“Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.”

— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com

Tagged: Time, World, borrow, Sorrow

“If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.”

— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com

Tagged: trouble, Problems, Expectation

“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.”

— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com

Tagged: Future, preparation, Anticipation, Ready

“If you break the little promises, you’ll break big ones.”

— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com

Tagged: Broken Promises, Trust and Loyalty

“Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever…”

— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com

Tagged: Thoughts, Forever, Remembering, Memories

“You have my whole heart. You always did.”

— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com

Tagged: Sweet Message, Missing Someone

“This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don’t give up.”

— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com

Tagged: Encouragement, motivation, Determination

“If you break the little promises, you’ll break big ones.”

— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com

Tagged: Trust, Broken Promises, Assurance

“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.”

— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com

Tagged: Worrying, mindfulness

“Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.”

— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com

Tagged: Fire, Passion, Politics Amidst Trolls, Oppression, Resistance

“Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.”

— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com

Tagged: Hope, Happiness, Passion

“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.”

— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com

Tagged: forget, remember, Forever