A Gift from Nessus Quotes

“Somewhere in all the bright assurances he was lost in a private darkness, led on by a recurrent dream of more than he was. What means did he have to fulfil it? A family, a house, a patch of garden. Suburban man's estate. With that he had somehow to contain and satisfy a hunger that seemed grotesquely out of keeping with its habitat - a brontosaurus in suburbia. He would try.”
― William McIlvanney, A Gift from Nessus