Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.
Cormac McCarthy – The Road
Transience of Life
T
Indelible Memories
I
Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever.
Cormac McCarthy – The Road
Anticipate Trouble
A
If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
Cormac McCarthy – The Road
Reluctant Existence
R
Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
Cormac McCarthy – The Road
Living in the Present
L
No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself.
Cormac McCarthy – The Road
Ancient Mysteries
A
In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.
Cormac McCarthy – The Road
Maps and Time
M
Maps are of time, not place, so far as he was concerned.
Cormac McCarthy – The Road
Grief’s Transformation
G
It’s the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
Cormac McCarthy – The Road
Bravery in Survival
B
What’s the bravest thing you ever did? He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.
Cormac McCarthy – The Road
Ease of Destruction
E
Destroying things is much easier than making them.
Suzanne Collins – The Hunger Games