Character: John Grady Cole

I think God is taking care of the people who asked Rawlins.
Like... what do you think?
I guess you're right... There is in the world a no order... And then someone sneezes in any Arkansas, and before you know it, you'll be carnage. And do happen to God knows what. Everyone will do what he wants. No. The Lord definitely watches over us, otherwise everything would fly apart.

Do you think there is a heaven?
I do not know. Maybe there is... But is it possible to believe in heaven and not believe in hell?
In my opinion, you can believe anything.
Rollins nodded and said:
If only to think that you can happen in this world made my Head spin.

...I thought we could be friends.
It's only words, Mary Catherine, he said, shaking his head. I have to go.
Well, what's wrong with words? All around you only know how to say the words.

My father ran away from home at the age of fifteen. Otherwise I would have been born in Alabama.
You do not be born.
Why do you think so?
Because your mother is a native of San Angelo and he never met her.
He could meet someone else.
And she is too.
What do you mean?
What you do not be born.
Stop asking me that! So, I would have been born somewhere else.
But how?
Like-like... And did!
If your mother gave birth to another man's child and your father gave birth to the son of another woman, which of these two would you rather?
No.
You see!
Rawlins lay and stared at the stars.
And still I somewhere yeah would be born. Maybe I would have looked not like now, but if God was pleased, so I appeared in a white light then I was born.
And if he was not anyone, and not be born.

And how much did you win? What's your record?
You don't need to know. Gambling is a bad habit.
Maybe a game of chess?
I now don't have the patience to play chess.
At least you had the patience to play poker.
Poker is another matter.
What is the difference?
Money, that's what.

You should not smoke.
Father pursed his lips, drummed his fingers on the table, looked at his son.
When I ask your advice what to do, then you'll know that I became an adult.

You should not smoke.
Father pursed his lips, drummed his fingers on the table, looked at his son.
When I ask your advice what to do, then you'll know that I became an adult.