The Road Quotes
"If he is not the word of God God never spoke."
"Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before."
"He knew only that the child was his warrant."
"You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget."
"Carried forth and scattered and carried forth again. Everything uncoupled from its shoring."
"He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime."
"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."
"It's all right. We're still here. And we're lucky we are."
"The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone."
"We're not survivors. We're the walking dead in a horror film."
"As for me, my only hope is for eternal nothingness and I hope it with all my heart."
"The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality."
"I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job."
"You can think of me as a faithless slut if you like. I've taken a new lover. He can give me what you cannot."
"A person who had no one would be well advised to cobble together some passable ghost."
"We used to talk about death, she said. We don't anymore. Why is that?"
"They say that women dream of danger to those in their care and men of danger to themselves."
"Shh, he said. Shh. Are they going to kill us? Papa? Shh."
"Dont be afraid, he said. If they find you you are going to have to do it. Do you understand?"
"I'm right here. I wont leave you. You promise. Yes. I promise."
"If you were a crow could you fly up high enough to see the sun? Yes. You could."
"Even if we were starving? We're starving now. You said we werent. I said we werent dying. I didnt say we werent starving."
"Because we're the good guys. Yes. And we're carrying the fire."
"Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave."
"When you die it's the same as if everybody else did too."
"People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that."
"When we're all gone at last then there'll be nobody here but death and his days will be numbered too."
"You think that would be asking too much. What's done is done."
"I dont know what he believes in. He'll get over it. No he won't."
"If something had happened and we were survivors and we met on the road then we'd have something to talk about. But we're not."
"In times like these the less said the better."
"When your dreams are of some world that never was or of some world that never will be and you are happy again then you will have given up."
"Do you think that your fathers are watching? That they weigh you in their ledgerbook? Against what? There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground."
"Look around you, he said. There is no prophet in the earth's long chronicle who's not honored here today. Whatever form you spoke of you were right."
"Yes you do. It's inside you. It was always there. I can see it."
"I cant. I cant hold my son dead in my arms. I thought I could but I cant."
"I know. I'm sorry. You have my whole heart. You always did."
"If I'm not here you can still talk to me. You can talk to me and I'll talk to you. You'll see."
"You have to make it like talk that you imagine. And you'll hear me. You have to practice."
"I know. But you'll be okay. You're going to be lucky. I know you are."
"I've got to stop talking. I'm going to start coughing again."
"It's okay, Papa. You dont have to talk. It's okay."