The Lottery Quotes

“It isn’t fair, it isn’t right,”

″ People ain’t the way they used to be. ”

“All right, folks. Let’s finish quickly. ”

“The lottery was conducted – as were the square dances, the teen club, the Halloween program – by Mr. Summers, who had time and energy to devote to civic activities.”

“Clean forgot what day it was,”

“Bill Hutchinson was standing quiet, staring down at the paper in his hand.‘”

“Although Mr. Summers and everyone else in the village knew the answer perfectly well, it was the business of the official of the lottery to ask such questions formally.”

“Get up there, Bill,”

“Guess we better get started, get this over with, so we can go back to work.”

″ So much of the ritual had been forgotten or discarded. ”

“Someone gave little Davy Hutchinson a few pebbles.”

“Mrs. Delacroix selected a stone so large she had to pick it up with both hands and turned to Mrs. Dunbar. ‘Come on,’ she said. ‘Hurry up.‘”

″‘There goes my old man.’ Mrs. Delacroix said. She held her breath while her husband went forward.”

“No one liked to upset even as much tradition as was represented by the black box. ”

“Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon. ”

“There’s always been a lottery. ”

“Daughters draw with their husbands’ families, Tessie,”

“You didn’t give him time enough to take any paper he wanted. I saw you. It wasn’t fair!”

″‘There’s Don and Eva,’ Mrs. Hutchinson yelled. ‘Make them take their chance!’

“The people had done it so many times that they only half listened to the directions; most of them were quiet, wetting their lips, not looking around.”

“You make broken things whole again. Me. You made me whole. And every time you smile at me, I feel like I hit the lottery again.”

“British lottery for the relief of the poor,”