The Truest Pleasure Quotes

“Everybody lets a skunk have its way,” Florrie said.”
― Robert Morgan, The Truest Pleasure: A Novel

“Already that fall Tom had established a routine. He had trouble sleeping after four in the morning. He liked to go to bed early and get up early. When he rose he ground coffee on the back porch and had a cup before it got light. It was the only time he could set. Maybe it was his favorite time of day, as it was mine. He made a fire to boil coffee and he set there and thought. I’d have give anything to know what he thought about. Maybe he prayed, and maybe he thought about sacred things. But I think he planned what he would do that day, what had to be done, and what could be done that time of year. He was planning to improve the place, and he thought about roads and fences, terraces to firm up and gullies that had to be choked with brush. After stepping outside to relieve hisself he would set for half an hour. I believe he thought the fiber of the Peace family had wore out and he needed to get the place right again.”
― Robert Morgan, The Truest Pleasure: A Novel

“Sometimes I think we only recollect what we have remembered before. What we recall is having recalled something already, so our strongest and truest memories come from a chain of often recalled things, and in that chain, over the years, events get adjusted and sorted around and stretched to fit the way we see things along the way.”
― Robert Morgan, The Truest Pleasure: A Novel