Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from Blood Meridian.
Madness Quotes
"Solitary, half mad, his eyes redrimmed as if locked in cages with hot wires" (2.4).
Race Quotes
"I was a slaver, don't care to tell it. Made good money. I never did get caught. Just got sick of it" (2.47).
Religion Quotes
"The façade of the building bore an array of saints in their niches and they had been shot up by American troops trying their rifles, the figures shorn of ears and noses and darkly mottled with le...
Alcohol and Drugs Quotes
"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto" (3.193).
Violence Quotes
"A rattling drove of arrows passed through the company and men tottered and dropped from their mounts" (4.79).
Man and the Natural World Quotes
"[The bat] crafted in his neck two narrow grooves and folding its wings over him it began to drink his blood" (5.126).
Sex Quotes
"The black stood stripped to the waist behind the tent and as the juggler turned with a sweep of his arm the girl gave him a shove and he leaped from the tent and strode about with strange posturin...
Family Quotes
"His folk are known hewers of wood and drawers of water but in truth his father has been a schoolmaster" (1.1).