Quotes from book

The Road

“Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.”

“You know that the things you put it your head stay there, right?'
'Yeah. But you remember some things, don't you?'
'Yeah. You remember the things you want to forget and forget the things you want to remember.”

“Each the others world entire.”

“Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?”

“If you break little promises, you'll break big ones.”

“The nights were blinding cold and casket black and the long reach of the morning had a terrible silence to it.”

“Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire.”

“Carry the fire.”

“What would you do if I died?
If you died I would want to die too.
So you could be with me?
Yes. So I could be with you.
Okay.”

“And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. Like certain ancient frescoes entombed for centuries suddenly exposed to the day.”

“Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?”

“The man watched him. Real life is pretty bad?

What do you think?

Well, I think we're still here. A lot of bad things have happened but we're still here.

Yeah.

You don't think that's so great.

It's okay.”

“Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never will be, and you're happy again, then you'll have given up. Do you understand? And you can't give up, I won't let you.”

“This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.”

“Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.”

“If only my heart were stone.”

“If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.”

“How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said.
I don't guess you would know it. You'd just be it.
Nobody would know it.
It wouldn't make any difference. When you die it's the same as if everybody else died too.”

“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”