“He lay there three days. He slept and he woke and he slept again. Someone turned off the light and he woke in the dark. He called out but no one answered. He thought about his father in Goshee. He knew that terrible things had been done to him there and he had always believed that he did not want to know about it but he did want to know. He lay in the dark thinking of all the things he did not know about his father and he realized that the father he knew was all the father he would ever know. He would not think about Alejandra because he didn’t know what was coming or how bad it would be and he thought she was something he’d better save. So he thought about horses and they were always the right thing to think about.”
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All the Pretty Horses (1992)