The Road Quotes

“So you could be with me? Yes. So I could be with you. Okay.
He lay listening to the water drip in the woods. Bedrock, this. The cold and the silence. The
ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void. Carried forth and
scattered and carried forth again. Everything uncoupled from its shoring. Unsupported in the ashen air.
Sustained by a breath, trembling and brief. If only my heart were stone.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“He'd carried his billfold about till it wore a cornershaped hole in his trousers. Then one day he sat by the roadside and took it out and went trough the contents. Some money, credit cards. His driver's licence. A picture of his wife. He spread everything out on the blacktop. Like gaming cards. He pitched the sweatblackened piece of leather into the woods and sat holding the photograph. Then he laid it down in the road also and then he stood and they went on.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road