"Her skeleton was small and spare; perhaps that was why what would have been merely plumpness in another was obesity in her."(1068)

"So, when she got to be thirty and was still single, we were not pleased exactly, but vindicated; even with insanity in the family she wouldn't have turned down all of her chances if they had really materialized." (1070)

"We had thought of them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled silhouette in the foreground." (1070)

"The construction company came with people and mules and machinery, and a foreman named Homer Barron, a Yankee- a big dar, ready man, with a big voice and eyes lighter than his face." (1070)

"Miss Emily just stared at him, her head tilted back in order to look him eye for eye until he looked away and went and got the arsenic and wrapped it up." (1072)

"So she vanquished them, horse and foot, just as she had vanquished their fathers thirty years before about the smell. That was two years after her father's death and a short time after her sweetheart. (1069)

"So we were not surprised when Homer Barron- the streets had been finished some time since- was gone." (1072)

"They called a special meeting of the Board of Aldermen. A deputation waited upon her, knocked at the door through which no visitor had passed since she ceased giving china- painting lessons eight or ten years earlier." (1068)

"See Colonel Satoris. I have no taxes in Jefferson.'
'But, Miss Emily-'
'See Colonel Sartoris. (Colonel Sartoris had been dead for almost ten years." (1069)

"When Miss Emily Grierson died our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an an old manservant- a combined gardener and cook- had seen in at least ten years.

"What was left of him, rotted beneath what was left on the nightshirt had become inextricable from the bed in which he lay; and upon him m and upon the pillow beside him lay that even coating of the patient and biding dust." (1074)

"Her voice was dry and cold. 'I have no taxes in Jefferson. Colonel sartoris explained it to me. Perhaps one of you can gain access to the city records and satisfy yourselves.'" (1068)

"Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town, dating from that day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris, the mayor- he who fathered the edict that no woman should appear on the streets without an apron- remitted her taxes." (1068)