“What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream”

—  Cormac McCarthy , book Suttree

page 154
Source: Suttree (1979)
Context: Pale manchild were there last agonies? Were you in terror, did you know? Could you feel the claw that claimed you? And who is this fool kneeling over your bones, choked with bitterness? And what could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream.

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American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter 1933

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