
"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"

"I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it. 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."

"It's not when you realize that nothing can help you--religion, pride, anything--it's when you realize that you don't need any aid."

"There was more than astonishment in it, it was horror; shock; agony eyeless, tongueless; just sound, and Luster's eyes backrolling for a white instant"

I couldn't feel the gate at all, but I could smell the bright cold.

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."

"A fine sound. A fine dead sound we will swap Benjy's pasture for a fine dead sound."

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.

"It was as different as day and dark from his former tone, with a sad, timbrous quality like an alto horn, sinking into their hearts and speaking there again when it had ceased in fading and cumulate echoes"

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