“At first, she was disappointed, but she was patient, infinitely patient, rooted to the ground by the boredom of the days.”
― The Tortilla Curtain
― The Tortilla Curtain
“He thought of Christ with his cross and his crown of thorns and wondered who had it worse.”
― The Tortilla Curtain
― The Tortilla Curtain
“But as he lay there watching the sparks climb into the sky, the wine infesting his veins, he knew how it was going to be, how it had to be, knew he would follow her into that hut and slap his own pain out of her, and that was so sick and so bad he wanted nothing more in that moment than to die.
But then dead men didn't work either, did they?”
― The Tortilla Curtain
But then dead men didn't work either, did they?”
― The Tortilla Curtain
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