Blood Meridian

"What is civilization but a vast repository of the dead."

"All order is hierarchal. Exchange and change and violent shedding of the old atelike some great molt of being."

"Everything to be known is already known."

"You will see me again."

"There is something inherent in the nature of things."

"Whatever is in the world may be said to be known."

"The world cannot be otherwise than it is."

"They are not reports of the world but instruments by which the world is shaped."

"You never heard of no man did you that had the backbone to do what needed doing."

"Whatever exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."

"There is no escape from fate."

"War is the truest form of existence."

"Nothing can stop what is coming."

"Blood is the only truth."

"What is written is written."

"The desert is the truth."

"Maps do not make men."

"To kill is to know."

"There is a price for all things."

"God does not speak to cowards."

"In war there are no innocents."

"Evil is a thing unto itself."

"To survive is to understand the law of the land."

"Even stones have souls."

"What moves in the darkness has no name."

"Nothing is true. Everything is permitted."

"You have to make your peace with the past."

"War endures. It is the condition of the world."

"The man who believes that the secrets of the world are hidden away in books is mistaken."

"There is no such thing as a life without bloodshed."