Robert Penn Warren Quote

The air so still it aches like the place where the tooth was on the morning after you've been to the dentist or aches like your heart in the bosom when you stand on the street corner waiting for the light to change and happen to recollect how things once were and how they might have been yet if what happened had not happened.


All the King's Men (ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006) - ISBN: 9780156031042


The air so still it aches like the place where the tooth was on the morning after you've been to the dentist or aches like your heart in the bosom...

The air so still it aches like the place where the tooth was on the morning after you've been to the dentist or aches like your heart in the bosom...

The air so still it aches like the place where the tooth was on the morning after you've been to the dentist or aches like your heart in the bosom...

The air so still it aches like the place where the tooth was on the morning after you've been to the dentist or aches like your heart in the bosom...