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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.
- Cormac McCarthy
You ever get ill at ease? said Rawlins. About what? I dont know. About anything. Just ill at ease. Sometimes. If you're someplace you aint supposed to be I guess you'd be ill at ease. Should be anyways. Well suppose you were ill at ease and didnt know why. Would that mean that you might be someplace you wasnt supposed to be and didnt know it?
- Cormac McCarthy
If we were going to die would you tell me? I dont know. We're not going to die.
- Cormac McCarthy
I dont know what happens to country.
- Cormac McCarthy
You think God looks out for people?...I do. Way the world is. Somebody can wake up and sneeze somewhere in Arkansas or some damn place and before you're done there's wars and ruination and all hell. You don't know what's goin to happen. I'd say He's just about go to. I don't believe we'd make it a day otherwise.
- Cormac McCarthy
Do you think I lie to you? No. But you think I might lie to you about dying. Yes. Okay. I might. But we're not dying. Okay.
- Cormac McCarthy
Do you think horses understand what people say? I aint sure most people do.
- Cormac McCarthy
When he rose and turned to go back the tarp was lit from within where the boy had wakened. Sited there in the darkness the frail blue shape of it looked like the pitch of some last venture at the edge of the world. Something all but unaccountable. And so it was.
- Cormac McCarthy
Here beyond men's judgements all covenants were brittle.
- Cormac McCarthy
Even if you knew what to do you wouldnt know what to do. You wouldnt know if you wanted to do it or not.
- Cormac McCarthy
If I could plan my life I wouldnt want to live it.
- Cormac McCarthy
Where do we go when we die? he said. I dont know, the man said. Where are we now?
- Cormac McCarthy