p. 25 "For money and excitement," Varner says. "Lucas ain't the first young buck that's throwed over what he was bred to do and them that depended on him for money and excitement."
p. 47 Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what the other man or woman is doing.
p. 70 Then the town was sorry with being glad, as people sometimes are sorry for those whom they have at last forced to do as they wanted them to do.
p. 253 But in order to rise, you must raise the shadow with you.
p. 289 Better than the musty offices where the lawyers waited lurking among ghosts of old lusts and lies, or where the doctors waited with sharp knives and sharp drugs, telling man, believing that he should believe, without resorting to printed admonishments, that they labored for that end whose ultimate attainment would leave them with nothing whatever to do.
p. 331 It is just dawn, daylight: that gray and lonely suspension filled with the peaceful and tentative waking of birds. The air, inbreathed, is like spring water. He breathes deep and slow, feeling with each breath himself diffuse in the natural grayness, becoming one with loneliness and quiet that has never known fury or despair. "That was all I wanted," he thinks, in a quiet and slow amazement. "That was all, for thirty years. That didn't seem to be a whole lot to ask in thirty years.
p. 467 Woman (not the seminary, as he had once believed): the Passive and Anonymous whom God had created to be not alone the recipient and receptacle of the seed of his body but of his spirit too, which is truth or as near truth as he dare approach.
p. 472 And the wife...liked him, admired him in a hushed, alarmed, secret way: his swagger, his bluff and simple adherence to a simple code.
p. 486 ...the faces of old men lined by that sheer accumulation of frustration and doubt which is so often the other side of the picture of hale and respected full years - the side, by the way, which the subject and proprietor of the picture has to look at, cannot escape looking at.
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