The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge Quotes

They were abandoning him. The wounded man knew it when he looked at the boy, who looked down, then away, unwilling to hold his gaze. (p.1)

Ashley was [...] a man with both the vision to bring commerce to the West and the money to make it happen. "Other people's money," as Ashley had called it. (1.1.3)

"He was the oldest. When we left Kentucky, our folks told him to look after me. Didn't say a word to me. Wouldn't have occurred to them." (1.2.7)

He heard her size before he saw it. Not just the track of the thick underbrush that the sow moved aside like short grass, but the growl itself, a sound deep like thunder or a falling tree. (1.3.10)

His experiences on the western plain had taught Glass that the performance of his rifle could mean the difference between life and death. (1.2.46)

But he had never seen human carnage like this, fresh in the wake of attack. Glass was shredded from head to foot. His scalp lay dangling to one side (1.3.27)

The boy came to believe that going west was [...] a part of his soul, a missing ounce that could only be made whole on some far-off mountain or plain. (1.6.34)

God had placed him in a garden of infinite bounty, a Land of Goshen in which any man could prosper if only he had the courage and the fortitude to try. (1.1.20)