The Border Trilogy Quotes

“He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses / The Crossing / Cities of the Plain

“Oh it may be the Lord’s way of showin how little store he sets by the learned. Whatever could it mean to one who knows all? He’s an uncommon love for the common man and godly wisdom resides in the least of things so that it may well be that the voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such beings as lives in silence themselves.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain

“The boy who rode on slightly before him sat a horse not only as if he’d been born to it which he was but as if were he begot by malice or mischance into some queer land where horses never were he would have found them anyway.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses / The Crossing / Cities of the Plain

“Looking over the country with those sunken eyes as if the world out there had been altered or made suspect by what he’d seen of it elsewhere. As if he might never see it right again. Or worse did he see it right at last. See it as it had always been, would forever be.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Border Trilogy

“Dreams of that malignant lesser god come pale and naked and alien to slaughter all his clan and kin and rout them from their house. A god insatiable whom no ceding could appease nor any measure of blood.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Border Trilogy