Quotes from book

The Road

“When the shooting starts would you rather be armed or legal?”

“Where men can't live gods fare no better.”

“Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.”

“Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.”

“There is no God and we are his prophets.”

“What's the bravest thing you ever did?
He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.”

“You have my whole heart. You always did. You're the best guy. You always were.”

“By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.”

“He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.”

“Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.”

“He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he.”

“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”

“Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said.”

“Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.
You forget some things, dont you?
Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.”

“When you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.”

“What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.”

“On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.”

“When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God he would have made the world just so and no different.”

“He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.”