"Sometimes, when she's out here alone, she can……" — T.C. Boyle
"Sometimes, when she's out here alone, she can feel the pulse of something bigger, as if all things animate were beating in unison, a glory and a connection that sweeps her out of herself, out of her consciousness, so that nothing has a name, not in Latin, not in English, not in any known language."
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10 Quotes by T.C. Boyle
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Pleasure, I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain.
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