The jagged mountains were pure blue in the dawn and everywhere birds twittered and the sun when it rose caught the moon in the west so that they lay opposed to each other across the earth, the sun whi...
The gifts of the Almighty are weighed and parceled out in a scale peculiar to himself.
The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
The breath of God was his yet, though it pass from man to man through all of time.
That was in nineteen and thirty-one and if I live to be a hunnerd year old I don't think I'll ever see anything as pretty as that train on fire goin up that mountain and around that bend and then flam...
That night Glanton stared long into the embers of the fire. All about him his men were sleeping but much was changed. So many gone, defected or dead. The Delawares all slain. He watched the fire and i...
That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.
Suttree ducked the yardlong coil of dead flies that hung from the ceiling and came to the counter with his purchases.
Suppose two men at cards with nothing to wager save their lives. Who has not heard such a tale? A turn of the card. The whole universe for such a player has labored clanking to his moment which will t...
Satan hath power to assume a pleasing form. Them big blue eyes. Knew more ways to turn a man's head than the devil's grandmother. I dont know where they learn it at. Hell, she wasnt but seventeen.
Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
Nineteen is old enough to know that if you have got somethin that means the world to you it's all that more likely it'll get took away. Sixteen was, for that matter.
Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one that what had gone before. Like the onset of some cold glaucoma dimming away the world.
NERO- Menomale che dici così, professore. Perché non ci trovo niente da ridere manco io. E' solo che ogni minuto che passa mi meraviglio di più. Ma possibile che non ti vedi, zuccherino? Sei trasparen...
I've lot a lot of friends over these last few years. Not all of em older than me neither. One of the things you realize about gettin older is that no everbody is goin to get older with you.
I don't mean to upset you, but reflective men often find themselves at a certain remove from the realities of life.
I despise the wintertime. I never did see what was the use in there even bein one.
He told the boy that although he was huerfano still he must cease his wanderings and make for himself some place in the world because to wander in this way would become for him a passion and by this p...
He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins.
He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the word and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.