Quotes

"They squatted in the road and ate cold rice and cold beans that they'd cooked days ago. Already beginning to ferment."( pg 27, McCarthy).
I really liked this quote, because people today take things for granted, like food. We complain about not having anything nice to eat for lunch, or complain about what we had for dinner the night before. In The Road, these two characters are struggling for survival, eating what they can, when they can scavenge it. They eat beans and rice that has started to go off without any complaint, because it is at least edible. It takes something really big, like the world ending, or something tragic for people to actually realise what they have, and appreciate it.

"On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world." ( pg 32, McCarthy)
I think that this quote means that on the road, there are no more religious, or faithful mean. I think that by now everyone has pretty much abandoned hope that god will save them, and they have accepted the harsh realities of their world. Saying that they left, and took the world with them, could possibly infer that there was some sort of religious influence in what happened to the world. It could also mean that when the world died, so did all the religion, meaning a symbolic death, not necessarily a literary death of all religious men.