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"That was two years after her father's death and a short time after her sweetheart--the one we believed would marry her --had deserted her." (Faulkner 2) Picture Citation: http://ninaamir.com/how-my-fathers-death-influenced-my-life/
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"Presently we began to see him and Miss Emily on Sunday afternoons driving in the yellow-wheeled buggy and the matched team of bays from the livery stable." (Faulkner 4) Picture Citation: http://www.istockphoto.com/vector/heart-icon-with-a-car-gm506881708-84442259
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"We learned that Miss Emily had been to the jeweler's and ordered a man's toilet set in silver, with the letters H. B. on each piece." (Faulkner 5) Picture Citation: http://www.silvercollection.it/toiletsets.html
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"Two days later we learned that she had bought a complete outfit of men's clothing, including a nightshirt, and we said, "They are married." We were really glad." (Faulkner 5) Picture Citation: https://www.pinterest.com/criscuenca/mens-clothing-vintage-drawings/
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"So she had blood-kin under her roof again and we sat back to watch developments. At first nothing happened. Then we were sure that they were to be married." (Faulkner 5) Picture Citation: https://steemit.com/steem/@michaellamden68/family-times
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""I want some poison," she said." (Faulkner 4)
"When she opened the package at home there was written on the box, under the skull and bones: "For rats."" (Faulkner 4) Picture Citation: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1245809/Found-wallpapers-dresses-libido-pills-Arsenic-Victorian-Viagra-poisoned-Britain.html -
"We were a little disappointed that there was not a public blowing-off, but we believed that he had gone on to prepare for Miss Emily's coming, or to give her a chance to get rid of the cousins. (By that time it was a cabal, and we were all Miss Emily's allies to help circumvent the cousins.) Sure enough, after another week they departed." (Faulkner 5) Picture Citation: https://twitter.com/drivesafeal/status/722156554699599872
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"And, as we had expected all along, within three days Homer Barron was back in town. A neighbor saw the Negro man admit him at the kitchen door at dusk one evening. And that was the last we saw of Homer Barron." (Faulkner 5) Picture Citation: http://privateinvestigator-orlandofl.com/missing-person-investigations/
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"Just as if a man--any man--could keep a kitchen properly, "the ladies said; so they were not surprised when the smell developed. It was another link between the gross, teeming world and the high and mighty Griersons. (Faulkner 2) Picture Citation: http://canadaplumbingservices.com/fixing-a-bad-smell-from-your-plumbing/
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"...four men crossed Miss Emily's lawn and slunk about the house like burglars, sniffing along the base of the brickwork and at the cellar openings while one of them performed a regular sowing motion with his hand out of a sack slung from his shoulder. They broke open the cellar door and sprinkled lime there, and in all the outbuildings." (Faulkner 3) Picture Citation: http://www.doityourself.com/stry/using-lime-for-lawns--a-guide
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"From that time on her front door remained closed, save for a period of six or seven years, when she was about forty, during which she gave lessons in china-painting." (Faulkner 5) Picture Citation: https://www.pinterest.com/connieking1964/porcelain-painting-lessons/
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"See Colonel Sartoris." (Colonel Sartoris had been dead almost ten years.) "I have no taxes in Jefferson. Tobe!" The Negro appeared. "Show these gentlemen out." (Faulkner 2) Picture Citation: http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2013/06/05/can-irs-collect-30-year-old-tax-debt-you-bet/#221b4b11563a
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"She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in a heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldy with age and lack of sunlight." (Faulkner 6) Picture Citation: https://trivialist10.wordpress.com/2012/05/20/occurrences-before-and-after-death/
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"They held the funeral on the second day, with the town coming to look at Miss Emily beneath a mass of bought flowers, with the crayon face of her father musing profoundly above the bier and the ladies sibilant and macabre; and the very old men --some in their brushed Confederate uniforms--on the porch and the lawn..." (Faulkner 6) Picture Citation: http://onehallyu.com/topic/183485-dla-shabets-career-funeral-rip-dla-shabets-career/
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"The violence of breaking down the door seemed to fill this room with pervading dust. A thin, acrid pall as of the tomb seemed to lie everywhere upon this room decked and furnished as for a bridal:.." (Faulkner 6)
"The man himself lay in the bed." (Faulkner 6) Picture Citation: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_covered_corpse_lying_on_a_bed._Etching_by_Ch._Chaplin_afte_Wellcome_V0042289.jpg
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