Quentin Compson Quotes

“It’s not when you realise that nothing can help you--religion, pride, anything--it’s when you realise that you dont need any aid.”

“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.”

“If I’d just had a mother so I could say Mother Mother.”

“There was a clock, high up in the sun, and I thought about how, when you dont want to do a thing, your body will try to trick you into doing it, sort of unawares.”

“Father and I protect women from one another from themselves our women.”

“Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar.”