Quotes from book
Cities of the Plain

Name: Cities of the Plain
Author: Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy

Cities of the Plain is the final volume of American novelist Cormac McCarthy's "Border Trilogy", published in 1998. The title is a reference to Sodom and Gomorrah .

“He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.”

Cormac McCarthy book Cities of the Plain

Source: Cities of the Plain

“Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.”

Cormac McCarthy book Cities of the Plain

Source: Cities of the Plain (1998)

“The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their claims and the justice of those claims. And of their claims upon them. The world past, the world to come. Their common transciencies. Above all a knowing deep in the bone that beauty and loss are one.”

Cormac McCarthy book Cities of the Plain

Cities of the Plain (1998)

“The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.”

Cormac McCarthy book Cities of the Plain

Cities of the Plain (1998)

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