Status Updates From The Crossing (The Border Tr...

"Something not of this earth. As if some awful composite of grief had broke through from the preterite world It tottered away up the road in the rain on its stricken legs and as it went it howled again and again in its heart’s despair until it was gone from all sight and all sound in the night’s onset."
Heartbreaking. I'm very humbled and lost for words.

"The fire in the bajada no more than a glow, hid in the ground like some secret glimpse of the earth’s burning core broke through into the darkness. He seemed to himself a person with no prior life. As if he had died in some way years ago and was ever after some other being who had no history, who had no ponderable life to come."
True greatness is always in apparent simplicity, never bombast. What writing.

"She said that to be a woman was to live a life of difficulty and heartbreak and those who said otherwise simply had no wish to face the facts. And she said that since this was so nor could it be altered one was better to follow one’s heart in joy and in misery than simply to seek comfort for there was none. ...She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of."
RIP Sir. No words.

"The man standing said that what argued for one case argued for all and that in any event our graves make no claims outside of their own simple coordinates and no advice as to how to arrive there but only the assurance that arrive we shall."
Not only am I actually understanding a McCarthy book but also finding it spectacular. What is happening?

"He talked to her about his life but it didnt seem to rest her fears. After a while he sang to her."
This is so wholesome. 😭

Someone replaced my western with a philosophy book, but book good