How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
'Then, if this is so, if I am the instrument of her despair and death, then I am in turn instrument of someone outside myself. And I know that for fifty years I have not even been clay: I have been a single instant of darkness in which a horse galloped and a gun crashed. (21.35)
Hightower admits that he has not been manipulated by fate or molded, as clay; rather, he is the primary agent in his life and has made the decisions that have lead him where he is today – a lonely outcast.