“They rode on and the sun in the east flushed pale streaks of light and then a deeper run of color like blood seeping up in sudden reaches flaring planewise and where the earth drained up into the sky at the edge of creation the top of the sun rose out of nothing like the head of a great red phallus until it cleared the unseen rim and sat squat and pulsing and malevolent behind them.”
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
― The Road
― The Road
“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― No Country for Old Men
― No Country for Old Men
“Each leaf that brushed his face deepened his sadness and dread. Each leaf he passed he'd never pass again. They rode over his face like veils, already some yellow, their veins like slender bones where the sun shone through them. He had resolved himself to ride on for he could not turn back and the world that day was as lovely as any day that ever was and he was riding to his death.”
― Child of God
― Child of God
“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
― All the Pretty Horses
― All the Pretty Horses
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