Bellefleur Quotes

“For it seemed (though why it seemed so, no one knew) that everything began on that night. And, once begun, it could not be stopped.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Bellefleur

“the poor child there for hours (for he had the reptilian patience of an adult to whom time possesses no value except in proportion to what it might reveal, what meager nugget of truth it might suddenly cast up)”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Bellefleur