Carolina QuotesDon't take in no strangers while I'm gone. She sighed deeply. They ain't a soul in this world but what is a stranger to me, she said.
Cormac McCarthy Carolinian
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- Outer Dark (1968)
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- 1968
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“Don't take in no strangers while I'm gone. She sighed deeply…” Cormac McCarthy. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-1E3945A5D6. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/1e3945a5d6
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And she waited again at the front door with it open, poised between the maw of the dead and loveless house and the outer dark like a frail thief.
He wrote in his little black book by the light of the oil lamp. 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. We pour water upon the child and name it. Not to fix it in our hearts but in our clutches. The daughters of men sit in half darkened closets inscribing messages upon their arms with razorblades and sleep is no part of their life.
Finally he leaned and cupped his hand to the glass chimney and blew out the lamp and lay back in the dark. He knew that on the day of his death he would see her face and he could hope to carry that beauty into the darkness with him, the last pagan on earth, singing softly upon his pallet in an unknown tongue.