The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)

by Cormac McCarthy

He said that the wolf is a being of great order and that it knows what men do not: that there is no order in the world save that which death has put there.

I sure would hate to be a woman in this country.

What if the ground turns off hard and rocky? You thought about that? What if the world ends, said Billy. You thought about that?

In their images they had thought to find some small immortality but oblivion cannot be appeased.