

“If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?”
― No Country for Old Men
― No Country for Old Men

“If you break little promises, you'll break big ones.”
― The Road
― The Road

“The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint pattern for just a moment in the incandescence like the shape of a flower, a molten rose. Then all was dark again.”
― The Road
― The Road

“When the shooting starts would you rather be armed or legal?”
― The Road
― The Road

“He woke before dawn and watched the gray day break. Slow and half opaque. He rose while the boy slept and pulled on his shoes and wrapped in his blanket he walked out through the trees. He descended into a gryke in the stone and there he crouched coughing and he coughed for a long time. Then he just knelt in the ashes. He raised his face to the paling day. Are you there? he whispered. Will I see you at the last? Have you a neck by which to throttle you? Have you a heart? Damn you eternally have you a soul? Oh God, he whispered. Oh God.”
― The Road
― The Road
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