Blood Meridian is full of quotable passages. Some are essential to the understanding of the novel, and some are just flat out funny. All are examples of McCarthy’s superior skills as a writer. This page will aggregate my favorite quotes, chapter by chapter.
Chapter I
His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again in all the world’s turning will there be terrains so wild and barbarous to try whether the stuff of creation may be shaped to man’s will or whether his own heart is not another kind of clay. — pgs. 4–5
Bears that Dance, Bears that Don't 