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“Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man’s mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.”

Cormac McCarthy book Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end. You can say that things could have turned out differently. That they could have been some other way. But what does that mean? They are not some other way. They are this way. You're asking that I second say the world.”

Cormac McCarthy book No Country for Old Men

No Country for Old Men (2005)

“Given charge Ballard would have made things more orderly in the woods and in men's souls.”

Cormac McCarthy book Child of God

Source: Child of God (1973), p.128

“God don't lie…. And these are his words…. He speaks in stones and trees, the bones of things.”

Cormac McCarthy book Blood Meridian

Source: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter IX, Judge Holden

“Getting hurt changed me, he said. Changed my perspective. I've moved on, in a way. Some things have fallen into place that were not there before. I thought they were, but they werent. The best way I can put it is that I've sort of caught up with myself. That's not a bad thing. It was overdue.”

Cormac McCarthy book No Country for Old Men

No Country for Old Men (2005)