Which of these lines from the novel As I Lay Dying represents Cash Bundren’s view that the lack of common sense is the inability to conform to social norms?
That’s what they mean by the love that passeth understanding: that pride, that furious desire to hide that abject nakedness which we bring here with us.
Motherhood was invented by someone who had to have a word for it because the ones that had the children didn’t care whether there was a word for it or not.
Sometimes I think it aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way.
A woman’s place is with her husband and children, alive or dead.