Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from The Sound and the Fury.
I couldn't feel the gate at all, but I could smell the bright cold. (1.31)
"He thirty three." Luster said. "Thirty three this morning." "You mean, he been three years old thirty years." (1.180-81)
Caddy smelled like trees and like when she says we were asleep. (1.38)
Roses. Not virgins like dogwood, milkweed. I said I have committed incest, Father I said. Roses. (2.4)
They were hitting little, across the pasture. I went back along the fence to where the flag was. It flapped on the bright grass and the trees. (1.4)
"I'm going to tell on you." Jason said. He was crying. "You've already told." Caddy said. "There's not anything else you can tell, now."(1.322-3)
She was wet. We were playing in the branch and Caddy squatted down and got her dress wet and Versh said, "Your mommer going to whip you for getting your dress wet." (1.187-8)
"White folks gives nigger money because know first white man comes along with a band going to get it all back, so nigger can go to work for some more." (1.146)
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. (2.1)
Caddy was all wet and muddy behind, and I started to cry and she came and squatted in the water. (1.212)
