Quotes from Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing

Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.

No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they?No. It's never like what you expected.Quijada nodded. If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?

He is where he is supposed to be. And yet the place he has found is also of his own choosing. That is a piece of luck not to be despised.