He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.

She smiled. I think it's just the snow. I think it makes people stop and think. Bell nodded. I hope it comes a blizzard then.

Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold.

I dont know what I ever done, she said. I truly dont. Chigurh nodded. Probably you do, he said. There's a reason for everything. She shook her head. How many times I've said them very words. I wont again.

He may be dead; or he may be teaching English.

I don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful, it will make little difference whether she lives at all.

People don't pay attention. And then one day there's an accounting. And after that, nothing is the same.