The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge Quotes by Chapter

They were abandoning him. The wounded man knew it when he looked at the boy, who looked down, then away, unwilling to hold his gaze. (p.1)

Ashley was [...] a man with both the vision to bring commerce to the West and the money to make it happen. "Other people's money," as Ashley had called it. (1.1.3)

Glass's rifle was the one extravagance of his life, and when he rubbed grease into the spring mechanism of the hair trigger, he did so with the tender affection that other men might reserve for a w...

Harris had no idea where to begin, and was almost relieved that the throat wounds appeared so obviously mortal. (1.3.29)

"How long do you figure we can parade through this valley before we stumble on some hunting party? Glass ain't the only man in this brigade." (1.4.13)

When he walked in on Dominique plying her trade with the fat captain of a keelboat, the young man fell into a rage. He stabbed them both before fleeing into the streets. (1.5.11)

The frontier for Bridger became [...] a magnetic force pulling him inexorably toward something that he heard about, but never seen. (1.6.34)

Glass spent almost a year with the Loup Pawnee [...] After overcoming his initial reticence, Kicking Bull adopted the white man like a son. (1.7.86)

Glass thought about the snake, surviving, thriving for a decade on the strength of its brutal attributes. And then a single mistake [...] dead and devoured. (1.8.9)

Fitzgerald and Bridger [...] were not mere passerbys on the road to Jericho, looking away and crossing to the other side. (1.9.39)

Glass had glimpsed [...] buffalo [...] on a hundred different occasions. Yet the sight of the animals never failed to fill him with awe. (1.10.6)

Unlike Fitzgerald, he did have an instinct across open country. He always had, an internal compass that seemed to shepherd him in unmarked terrain. (1.11.10)

He stared at the knife in his chest. [...] It was Glass's knife. In some ways it was a relief to die, he thought, easier than living with his guilt. (1.12.27)

[T]he trappers and the Sioux had been allies in the siege against the Arikara. Glass remembered that the Sioux had quit the fight in disgust over Colonel Leavenworth's tactics (1.13.22)

A gun. He appreciated Kiowa's willingness to equip him. What he wanted, though, was his gun. His gun and a reckoning from the men who stole it. (1.15.34)

Glass came quickly to understand the odd affection of voyageurs for their craft. It was [...] a partnership between the men who propelled the boat and the boat that propelled the men. (2.16.5)

"I won't let them cut us up. [...] Don't worry, little brother," he whispered, leaning back into the current's welcoming arms. "It's all downstream from here." (2.17.58)

Like the trader Kiowa Brazeau, Chief Mato-Tope wanted the Missouri open for business. (2.18.22)

Glass became suddenly aware of the sound of the river. It was an odd thing to notice, he thought. He had slung to the river for weeks. (2.20.3)

The desire to shoot Bridger down nearly overwhelmed him. Having crawled toward this moment for a hundred days, the prospect of vengeance was now immediate. (2.21.80)

Finally Glass said simply, "Follow your own lead, Bridger." Then he turned back to the horse. (2.22.49)

And if Glass believed in a god, surely it resided in this great western expanse. (2.23.3)

What story connected the dainty trinket to Pig? [...] They would never know, and the finality of the mystery filled Glass with melancholy thought of his own souvenirs. (2.24.26)

He waded into the water, careful to leave a few telltale tracks pointing up the stream—away from the Platte. (2.25.54)

Glass could bear it no longer. He reached beneath his capote for the pistol concealed at his belt. He pulled out the gun and fired. (2.26.106)

"Why did you come to the frontier? [...] To revel in a moment's revenge?" [...] Still Glass said nothing. Finally Kiowa said, "If you want to die in the guardhouse, that's for you to decide." (2.27...

He raised his eyes to a horizon carved from snowy mountain peaks. [...] He could climb up there if he wanted. Climb up there and touch the horizon, jump across and find the next. (2.28.23)