# Quote — Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian

> He pointed with his left hand and she turned to follow his hand with her gaze and he put the pistol to her head and fired. [...] He took a skinning knife from his belt and stepped to where the old woman lay and took up her hair and twisted it about his wrist and passed the blade of the knife about her skull and ripped away the scalp.

- Author: [Cormac McCarthy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy.md)
- Book: [Blood Meridian](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy/blood-meridian.md)
- Page: 102
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Blood_Meridian#Quotations) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy/blood-meridian/he-pointed-with

## More from this book

> Spanish: "People say the coyote is a witch. Most of the time, the witch is a coyote."

p. 75 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy/blood-meridian/spanish-people-say.md)

> Where is yesterday? Where is Glanton and Brown and where is the priest? He leaned closer. Where is Shelby, whom you left to the mercies of Elias in the desert, and where is Tate whom you abandoned in the mountains? Where the ladies, ah the fair and tender ladies with whom you danced at the governor's ball when you were a hero anointed with the blood of the enemies of the republic you'd elected to defend? And where is the fiddler and where the dance?

p. 344 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy/blood-meridian/where-is-yesterday.md)

> This is a terrible place to die in.
>
> Where’s a good one?

p. 217 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy/blood-meridian/this-is-a-terrible.md)