“A Bundren through and through, loving nobody, caring for nothing except how to get something with the least amount of work.” –Cora (Ch.6)
“It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.” –Darl Ch.10
“When I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind.” –Peabody Ch.11
“I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.”- Dewey Dell Ch.14
“…I have no mother” –Darl Ch. 21
“I notice how it takes a lazy man, a man that hates moving, to get set on moving once he does get started off, the same as he was set on staying still, like it aint the moving he hates so much as the starting and the stopping.” – Samson Ch.29
“I wish I had time to let her die.” -Dewey dell. Ch. 30
“If there is a villain in the story it is the convention in which people have to live.” -Faulkner
“The Lord Giveth” –Anse
“I always say it aint never been what he done so much or said or anything so much as how he looks at you.”- Vernon
“Addie Bundren…who had tried to teach us that deceit was such that in a world where it was, nothing else could be very bad or very important not even poverty. – Darl
“He will save me from the water and from the fire. Even though I have laid down my life, he will save.”- Cora 39
“It is as though time, no longer running straight before us in a dimishing line, now runs parallel between us like a looping string, the distance being the doubling accretion of the thread and not the interval between."-Darl
“I know my own sin. I know that I deserve my punishment. I do not begrudge it.”- Addie
“words are no good…words don’t ever fir what they are trying to say it.” -Addie
“..and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never has and cannot until they have forgotten the words.” – Addie.
“It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.” –Darl Ch.10
“When I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind.” –Peabody Ch.11
“I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.”- Dewey Dell Ch.14
“…I have no mother” –Darl Ch. 21
“I notice how it takes a lazy man, a man that hates moving, to get set on moving once he does get started off, the same as he was set on staying still, like it aint the moving he hates so much as the starting and the stopping.” – Samson Ch.29
“I wish I had time to let her die.” -Dewey dell. Ch. 30
“If there is a villain in the story it is the convention in which people have to live.” -Faulkner
“The Lord Giveth” –Anse
“I always say it aint never been what he done so much or said or anything so much as how he looks at you.”- Vernon
“Addie Bundren…who had tried to teach us that deceit was such that in a world where it was, nothing else could be very bad or very important not even poverty. – Darl
“He will save me from the water and from the fire. Even though I have laid down my life, he will save.”- Cora 39
“It is as though time, no longer running straight before us in a dimishing line, now runs parallel between us like a looping string, the distance being the doubling accretion of the thread and not the interval between."-Darl
“I know my own sin. I know that I deserve my punishment. I do not begrudge it.”- Addie
“words are no good…words don’t ever fir what they are trying to say it.” -Addie
“..and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never has and cannot until they have forgotten the words.” – Addie.