# Quote — Cormac McCarthy, Outer Dark

> The man sat watching the road, the weedstem twirling in his mouth and the threadthin shadow of it going long and short upon his face like a sundial's hand beneath a sun berserk.

- Author: [Cormac McCarthy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy.md)
- Book: [Outer Dark](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy/outer-dark.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy/outer-dark/the-man-sat

## More from this book

> Don't flang him off the bluff, boys. Tain't christian.

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> Yes mam. I'm sorry you've had such troubles.
>
> Mm-hmm. Sorry. Don’t need sorry. Not in this house. Sorry laid the hearth here. Sorry ways and sorry people and heavensent grief and heartache to make you pine for your death.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy/outer-dark/yes-mam-im-sorry.md)

> I've seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy/outer-dark/ive-seen-the.md)