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The road by mccormick5/20/2023 Their birth in grief and ashes.”Ĥ) “Where men can't live gods fare no better.”ĥ) “ Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Getting up this morning, he said.”Ģ) “ Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire.”ģ) “No lists of things to be done. Here are 10 of the most epic post apocalyptic quotes from The Road by Cormac McCarthy.ġ) “ What's the bravest thing you ever did? He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. With that in mind, I've hand-picked some of the darkest, bleakest and most beautiful quotes, to offer a little insight into the destroyed world The Road manages to conjure into existence. The story is told through McCarthy's characteristically melodic prose, resulting in one of the most quotable books I've ever read. They travel through barren wastelands and crumbling towns, encountering all-manner of survivors on the way. Without giving away the story, the book follows a man and his son as they make their way through a destroyed country, in search of something more than their current lives offer. The Road by Cormac McCarthy is one of the archetypal books of the post-apocalyptic genre.Ĭombining some of the bleakest imagery found anywhere in fiction, with beautiful, almost poetic writing, it manages to capture the genre's defining message: life goes on, even in the darkest times.
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