A Gathering of Old Men Events Quotes

"Now listen," she said. "I want you to run, and I don't want you to stop running. I want you to go tell Rufe and Reverend Jameson, and Corrine and the rest of them to gather at Mathu's house right...

Lord have mercy, Jesus, what now? Where do I turn? Go where first? The Major? For what? He's already drunk out there on that front garry, and it's just twelve o'clock. Miss Bea? That's like talking...

I looked back at her. I didn't jerk my head around, I looked at her slowly. I had known Candy for over twenty-five years. She was no more than five or six when her mother and father were killed in...

Then that oldest boy of Berto, that sissy one they called Fue, come running down the riverbank and said Clatoo said Miss Merle said that young woman at Marshall, Candy, wanted us on the place right...

When I looked around, I saw Ella standing in the door with her hands on her hips. So big she was filling up that whole door.             "Wha...

Mathu was one of them blue-black Singaleese n*****s. Always bragged about not having no white man's blood in his veins. He looked down on the rest of us who had some, and the more you had, the more...

Jameson came round the end of the garry where I was sitting. He was crying now. He was pressing his lips tight, but I could see tears running down his face. […]      
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"You seem to have something personal against him."             Mapes grunted. "That's where you're wrong. I admire the n*****. He's a better...

Mapes was a lot of things. He was big, mean, brutal. But Mapes respected a man. Mathu was a man, and Mapes respected Mathu. But he didn't think much of the rest of us, and he didn't respect us. [â€...

Gil turned back to Candy. "You never did like Beau," he said. "You never liked any of us. Looking at us as if we were a breed below you. But we're not, Candy. We're all made of the same bone, the s...

Miss Merle's birdlike red mouth tightened and untightened two or three times. From her eyes, you could see that she was questioning God's reason for putting her here at the same time He did the res...

Fix looked from Gil to the woman sitting on the bed with her head bowed. She had been quiet a long time, but never once raised her head to look at anyone. Fix looked at the little boy in his lap an...

You know, I sympathize with him. 'Cause you see he never wanted none of this. Never wanted to be responsible for name and land. They dropped it on him, left it on him. That's why he drinks the way...

"Give us a couple minutes," Clatoo said. "You can spare us that."             Mapes looked back at us on the walk. More of us had raised our...

"I'm ready to go now, Sheriff," Charlie said to Mapes. "I'm ready to pay. I done dropped a heavy load. Now I know I'm a man."             "Af...

Then I saw Lou crawling fast on the other side of the house. He was crawling on his knees and elbows, crawling fast. Then something made him stop, and he looked under the house at me. It was dark u...

But we had all gathered around Charlie. Mathu knelt down 'side him and raised his head out of the dust. They had really got him. Right in the belly. He laid there like a big old bear looking up at...