English quotes The road

'Cold to crack the stones. To take your life'

'Have you a neck by which to throttle you? Have you a heart? Damn you eternally have you a soul?

'God he whispered'

'He looked at the old man. Perhaps he'd turn into a god and they to trees'

'please don't do this. I'm sorry. I cant do it alone.'

'Will you tell him goodbye? No. I will not'

'They came shuffling through the ash/slouching along with clubs in their hands, lengths of pipe'

'He'd only taken two steps but he was almost between him and the child' 'levelled the pistol and fired'

'The city was mostly burned. No sign of life. Cars in the street caked with ash, everything covered with ash and dust.'

'A corpse in the doorway dried to leather. Grimacing at the day.'

'the country as far as they could see was burned away, the blackened shapes of rock standing out of the shoals of ash and billows of ash rising up'

'the mummied dead everywhere'

'The flesh cloven along the bones, the ligaments dried to tug and taut as wires'

'Are we still the good guys? He said. Yes. We're still the good guys'

'He said the right dreams for a man in peril were dreams of peril and all else was the call of languor and of death'

'The boy clutching his forehead, covered with gore and mute as a stone'

'he could see almost to the rear of the box. Human bodies'

 'I'm begging you, he said. No. I will not. I cannot'

'Did you have any friends?/What happened to them? They died'

'Coming back he found the bones and the skin piled together with rocks over them. A pool of guts'

'There was a lake a mile from his uncle's farm where he and his uncle used to go in the fall for firewood'

 'In dreams his pale bride came to him out of a green and leafy canopy'

'He dreamt of walking in a flowering wood where birds flew before them he and the child'

'It was a lot scarier in the dream'

'Do you think there could be fish in the lake?'

'The boy had found some crayons and painted his facemask with fangs and he trudged on uncomplaining.'

'And we're carrying the fire'

'were carrying the fire'

'everything depended on reaching the coast'

'An hour later they were sitting on the beach and staring out at the wall of smog across the horizon' 'Cold. Desolate. Birdless'

'He slept close to his father that night and held him but when he woke in the morning his father was cold and stiff.'

'help us they whispered. Please help us'

'carrying only a pistol and a bottle of water'