“Yes mam. I'm sorry you've had such troubles.
Mm-hmm. Sorry. Don’t need sorry. Not in this house. Sorry laid the hearth here. Sorry ways and sorry people and heavensent grief and heartache to make you pine for your death.”

— Cormac McCarthy , book Outer Dark

Outer Dark (1968)

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American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter 1933

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