Cormac McCarthy Quotes

When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.

Cormac McCarthy

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• When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Mother
  • Lost
  • Mountain