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Cormac McCarthy Quotes

Cormac McCarthy quotes about dark

American Writer July 20, 1933

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They watched storms out there so distant they could not be heard, the silent lightning flaring sheetwise and the thin black spine of the mountain chain fluttering and sucked away again in the dark. They saw wild horses racing on the plain, pounding their shadows down the night and- leaving in the moonlight a vaporous dust like the palest stain of their passing. Cormac McCarthy
The soft black talc blew through the streets like squid ink uncoiling along a sea floor and the cold crept down and the dark came early and the scavengers passing down the steep canyons with their torches trod silky holes in the drifted ash that closed behind them silently as eyes. Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy quote: "I will do what I promised." He whispered. "No matter what. I..."
I will do what I promised." He whispered. "No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone. Cormac McCarthy
And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up. Cormac McCarthy
Trousers rolled to the knee but still they got wet. They tied the rope to a cleat at the rear of the boat and rowed back across the lake, jerking the stump slowly behind them. By then it was already evening. Just the slow periodic rack and shuffle of the oarlocks. The lake dark glass and windowlights coming on along the shore. A radio somewhere. Neither of them had spoken a word. This was the perfect day of childhood. This is the day to shape the days upon. Cormac McCarthy
With the final onset of dark the iron cold locked down and the boy by now was shuddering violently. No moon rose beyond the murk and there was nowhere to go. Cormac McCarthy
When he rose and turned to go back the tarp was lit from within where the boy had wakened. Sited there in the darkness the frail blue shape of it looked like the pitch of some last venture at the edge of the world. Something all but unaccountable. And so it was. Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy quote: "Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one..."
Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before. Cormac McCarthy
the bleak and shrouded earth went trundling past the sun and returned again as trackless and as unremarked as the path of any nameless sisterworld in the ancient dark beyond. Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy quote: "Freeze this frame. Now call down your dark and your cold and..."
Freeze this frame. Now call down your dark and your cold and be damned. Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy quote: "Now call down your dark and your cold and be damned."
Now call down your dark and your cold and be damned. Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy quote: "...in that cold autistic dark."
...in that cold autistic dark. Cormac McCarthy

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