“When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.”

Source: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter V
Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

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American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter 1933

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