Cormac McCarthy Quote

The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their claims and the justice of those claims. And of their claims upon them. The world past, the world to come. Their common transciencies. Above all a knowing deep in the bone that beauty and loss are one.


Cities of the Plain (1998)


The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their claims and the justice of...

The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their claims and the justice of...

The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their claims and the justice of...

The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their claims and the justice of...