The Power and the Glory Quotes

"Going in her?"The little man seemed to evade the question, but then as if some explanation were required: "I was just looking," he said. "I suppose she'll be sailing soon?" (1.1.22-23)

"Don't mention him," the mother said. "How dare you? That despicable man. A traitor to God." (1.2.66)

Mr Tench went out to look for his ether cylinder, into the blazing Mexican sun and the bleaching dust. A few vultures looked down from the roof with shabby indifference: he wasn't carrion yet. A fa...

"But can't you," she said logically, "just give yourself up?"He had answers as plain and understandable as her questions. He said, "There's the pain. To choose pain like that—it's not possible. A...

"Why, I could guarantee to fetch this man in, inside a month if …""If what?""If I had the power.""It's easy to talk," the chief said. What would you do?""This is a small state. Mountains on the n...

He was driven by the presence of soldiers to the very place where he most wanted to be. He had avoided it for six years, but now it wasn't his fault—it was his duty to go there—it couldn't coun...

He knew what it meant: the ship had kept to timetable: he was abandoned. He felt an unwilling hatred of the child ahead of him and the sick woman—he was unworthy of what he carried. (1.1.125)

"We've shot him half a dozen times," he said. (1.2.14)

"Some food.""We have no food.""Never mind."The boy came out of the hut and watched them: everybody watched. It was like a bull-fight. The animal was tired and they waited for the next move. They we...

"You don't remember the time when the Church was here. I was a bad Catholic, but it meant—well, music, lights, and a place where you could sit out of this heat—and for your mother, well, there...