[Book Review] The Road

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Then he picked up the phone and dialed the number of his father's house in that long ago.  –p7-

You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.

-p12-

I should have done it a long time ago. When there were three bullets in the gun instead of two. I was stupid. – p56-

Because we’re carrying the fire –p83-

Can you do it? When the time comes?

Could you crush that beloved skull with a rock? Is there such a being within you of which you know nothing? Can there be? -p114-

His mind was betraying him.

watched the day accrue.

The boy hung on to his coat an he kept to the edge of the road and tried to feel out the pavement under his feet in the dark. – p124-

We wouldn’t ever eat anybody, would we?

No. Of course not.

Even if we were starving?

We’re starving now.

You said we weren ’t.

I said we weren ’t dying. I didn’ t say we weren’t starving.

But we wouldn ’t.

No. We wouldn ’t.

No matter what.

No. No matter what.

Because we’re the good guys.

Yes.

And we’re carrying the fire

And we’re carrying the fire. Yes. –p128-

Like a dawn before battle.

There were times when he sat watching the boy sleep that he would begin to sob uncontrollably but it wasn’ t about death. He wasn’t sure what it was about but he thought it was about beauty or about goodness. -p129-

Even now some part of him wished they ’d never found this refuge. Some part of him always wished it to be over. -p154-

What are our long term goals? –p160-

Do you wish you would die?

No. But I might wish I had died. When you ’re alive you’ ve always got that ahead of you.

-p169-

There is no God. No? There is no God and we are his prophets. –p170-

There’s not any people.

There’s not any people. I just made that up.

I couldn’t trust you with it. To do something with it. I don ’t want anybody talking about me. To say where I was or what I said when I was there. I mean, you could talk about me maybe. But nobody could say that it was me. I could be anybody. I think in times like these the less. –p171-

What the boy had seen was a charred human infant headless and gutted and blackening on the spit. –p198-

Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie. –p238-

The odds are not in their favor. –p242-

No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone. –p248-

You’re not the one who has to worry about everything.

He looked up, his wet and grimy face. Yes I am, he said. I am the one. –p259-