S.A. Black > S.A.'s Quotes

“You have travelled to the stars, set foot in new worlds, and shown that beauty is universal.”
― Brian J. Dolan, Notes from Star to Star

“Earth. A blue dot suspended in space. With people and oceans and teeming cities, forests, and plains, ice at the poles on a cold year, wild and domestic animals, and some not nice stuff that wasn’t important at the moment with all the pleasant things to think about as her memory steadily, hopefully, came back.”
― Brian J. Dolan, Notes from Star to Star

“He said that war had destroyed the country and that men believe the cure for war is war as the curandero prescribes the serpent's flesh for its bite. He spoke of his campaigns in the deserts of Mexico and he told them of horses killed under him and he said that the souls of horses mirror the souls of men more closely than men suppose and that horses also love war. Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold. His own father said that no man who has not gone to war horseback can ever truly understand the horse and he said that he supposed he wished that this were not so but that it was so.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road