As I Lay Dying

Saturday, March 17, 2007

by William Faulkner

This touching novel tells the story of a 1930's Southern housewife on her deathbed and a family trying to make her last wish come true.

Quote: "Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn’t need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear.”