Tag: The Road

“What would you do if I died?”

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What would you do if I died?
If you died I would want to die too.
So you could be with me?
Yes. So I could be with you.
Okay.

Cormac McCarthy, The Road

McCarthy was born in 1933 and published his first novel at age 33.

This is a piece of dialogue between father and son (a young boy) in a post-apocalyptic world where the two try to outlast cannibals, rapists, and disease.

Yet somehow these lines are absolutely relatable for parents in the modern first-world societies, where the most danger we face daily is being stuck in traffic.

“If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.”

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Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Very educational quote. Also not difficult to imagine that the protagonists would be such utter pessimists in the world they live in.