Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses Quotes
Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.
I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They're always more trouble than what they're worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done.
Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion.
By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.
There was someone there and they had been there. There was no one there. There was someone there and they had been there and they had not left but there was no one there.
In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will.
Lastly he looked at the face so caved and drawn among the folds of funeral cloth, the yellowed moustache, the eyelids paper thin. That was not sleeping. That was not sleeping.
He tried to read her heart in her handclasp but he knew nothing.
John Grady looked at the table. The paper cat stepped thin and slant among the shapes of cats thereon. He looked up again. Yessir, he said. Just me and him.