These desert creatures think Cormac McCarthy might be their spirit animal.
Child of God changed this adorable burro's life.
"Whatever voice spoke to him was no demon but some old shed self that came yet from time to time in the name of sanity, a hand to gentle him back from the rim of his disastrous wrath."
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When this coyote read The Crossing, she thought, "Someone really understands me."
"We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn't fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless."
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All the Pretty Horses helped this Mojave rattlesnake through a painful breakup.
"He thought the world's heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world's pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower."
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This curmudgeonly grasshopper mouse re-reads Suttree every couple of years.
"How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it."
