Anse Bundren Quotes in As I Lay Dying
“Her [Addie’s] mind is set on it.”
“I have heard men cuss their luck, and right, for they were sinful men. But I do not say it’s a curse on me, because I have done no wrong to be cussed by.”
“I told him not to bring that horse out of respect for his dead ma, because it wouldn’t look right, him prancing along on a durn circus animal and her wanting us all to be in the wagon….”
“But now I can get them teeth. That will be a comfort. It will.”
“So I took Anse. And when I knew that I had Cash, I knew that living was terrible and that this was the answer to it. That was when I learned that words are no good; that words don’t ever fit even what they are trying to say at.”
“It’s Cash and Jewel and Vardaman and Dewey Dell…Meet Mrs. Bundren.”
Anse Bundren Quotes in As I Lay Dying
“Her [Addie’s] mind is set on it.”
“I have heard men cuss their luck, and right, for they were sinful men. But I do not say it’s a curse on me, because I have done no wrong to be cussed by.”
“I told him not to bring that horse out of respect for his dead ma, because it wouldn’t look right, him prancing along on a durn circus animal and her wanting us all to be in the wagon….”
“But now I can get them teeth. That will be a comfort. It will.”
“So I took Anse. And when I knew that I had Cash, I knew that living was terrible and that this was the answer to it. That was when I learned that words are no good; that words don’t ever fit even what they are trying to say at.”
“It’s Cash and Jewel and Vardaman and Dewey Dell…Meet Mrs. Bundren.”
