How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
Then she was across the porch I couldn't hear her heels then in the moonlight like a cloud, the floating shadow of the veil running across the grass, into the bellowing. She ran out of her dress, clutching her bridal, running into the bellowing where T. P. in the dew Whooey Sassprilluh Benjy under the box bellowing. (2.20)
Quentin’s thoughts become more and more confused as he thinks about one of the most traumatic days of his life – the day Caddy got married. Note how the first sentence begins coherently ("she was across the porch") but ends in turmoil ("she ran out of her dress clutching her bridal").
Quote #8
They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words. (2.261)
Although this refers to the three boys fishing (who are pretty minor characters), it becomes a way for Quentin (and perhaps for Faulkner) to meditate on the use of language. Think about this in connection with one of Quentin’s refrains, "If I could say mother Mother."
Quote #9
and i you dont believe i am serious and he i think you are too serious to give me any cause for alarm you wouldnt have felt driven to the expedient of telling me you had committed incest otherwise and i i wasnt lying i wasnt lying and he you wanted to sublimate a piece of natural human folly into a horror and then exorcise it with truth and i it was to isolate her out of the loud world so that it would have to flee us of necessity and then the sound of it would be as though it had never been (2.1008)
Quentin remembers how his father refuses to believe his attempts to claim that he and Caddy committed incest. In a way, Quentin’s right – he’s not lying. He wants to save Caddy from other men – even if it means imagining himself into an incestuous relationship. Note the quick switching between Quentin and "he" (his father) – it’s a sign of how frantic Quentin’s memory is becoming.