Choices Quotes in No Country for Old Men

One choice leads to another, which leads to another, and another, and often, these choices all lead in the same direction. You rarely take a U-turn. It may even be impossible to make a full U-turn. Bell made a choice that left him with a sense of guilt. By choosing not to talk about it, though, he lets that guilt just build up.

Here, Bell does take that U-turn in attempt to undo some of his past choices. He confesses his bad choice, and he gets support from his uncle. Some choices are had, but we have to make them. This is the first step Bell takes to atoning for his choice. Is it ever too late to start that journey?

Bell seems like a person who believes in karma, although he probably wouldn't use a hippy-dippy word like that. But from this line, we see that he believes that choices have consequences. At least, that's what he has to tell himself. In this book, we see people who make no bad choices be killed, and we see people who make horrible choices (like Chigurh, who chooses to kill victim after victim) live to choose again another day. But it's also possible that karma works in mysterious ways; maybe Chigurh will get what's coming to him one day.