Miss Emily Grierson quotes

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

Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town

See Colonel Sartoris. I have no taxes in Jefferson.

Thus she passed from generation to generation — dear, inescapable, impervious, tranquil, and perverse.

One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair.