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A review by hopebrasfield
The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
5.0
I enjoyed this even though I totally (accidentally) read its sequel first. Quotes I wrote down (that aren’t spoilers):
“In my experience people who say no matter what seldom know what what might turn out to be. They don’t know how bad what might get.”
“But I will tell you squire that having read even a few dozen books in common is a force more binding than blood.”
“People want to be reimbursed for their pain. They seldom are.”
“History is a collection of paper. A few fading recollections. After a while what is not written never happened.”
“[…] it is the nature of people to imagine that the defeated must have done something to deserve their undoing. People want the world to be just. But the world is silent on the subject. To win a war or a revolution does not validate the cause.”
“Mercy is the province of the person alone. There is mass hatred and there is mass grief. Mass vengeance and even mass suicide. But there is no mass forgiveness. There is only you.”
“In my experience people who say no matter what seldom know what what might turn out to be. They don’t know how bad what might get.”
“But I will tell you squire that having read even a few dozen books in common is a force more binding than blood.”
“People want to be reimbursed for their pain. They seldom are.”
“History is a collection of paper. A few fading recollections. After a while what is not written never happened.”
“[…] it is the nature of people to imagine that the defeated must have done something to deserve their undoing. People want the world to be just. But the world is silent on the subject. To win a war or a revolution does not validate the cause.”
“Mercy is the province of the person alone. There is mass hatred and there is mass grief. Mass vengeance and even mass suicide. But there is no mass forgiveness. There is only you.”