“That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame.”
“Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.”
“Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic.”
“Okay. I could her deb wailing-in my head. This is the Lowcountry, Steve. That's how life goes around here.”
“My feelings for you shame me into silence.”
“You know how a river goes on and on? That's my love for you.”