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Pallas is the fourth woman to come to the Convent. The teenage daughter of a wealthy lawyer, she runs away with her older boyfriend Carlos to live with Dee Dee, her estranged mother. When Pallas discovers Dee Dee and Carlos are having an affair, she runs away again. While traveling alone, Pallas is pursued by a group of boys. Her trauma and shame surrounding the event are too strong for her to relay exactly what happens, but she ends up hiding from the boys in a lake. Billie Delia meets Pallas in the hospital where she works and brings Pallas to the Convent. Pallas frequently arranges to leave, but she always returns to the Convent. She gives birth to a baby named Divine, which is her mother’s name and Pallas’s nickname in the Convent.
Pallas Truelove Quotes in Paradise
The Paradise quotes below are all either spoken by Pallas Truelove or refer to Pallas Truelove. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Consolata Quotes
That is how the loud dreaming began. How the stories rose in that place. Half-tales and the never-dreamed escaped from their lips to soar high above guttering candles, shifting dusts from crates and bottles. And it was never important to know who said the dream or whether it had meaning. In spite of or because their bodies ache, they step easily into the dreamer’s tale.
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Pallas Truelove Character Timeline in Paradise
The timeline below shows where the character Pallas Truelove appears in Paradise. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Divine
...in her Cadillac, bringing with her Gigi, Seneca, and a girl the townspeople don’t recognize (Pallas). Unlike the other guests, they wear makeup and revealing clothing. When they find no alcohol...
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...party. None of them are embarrassed or angry at being asked to leave. In fact, Pallas Truelove, the newest member of the group, is relieved. She came to the Convent only...
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In a flashback, Pallas prepares to elope with her boyfriend Carlos, a sculptor who works as a janitor at...
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Seneca brings Pallas to meet Connie in Connie’s dark bedroom beside the wine cellar. The other women have...
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The women, minus Connie, share dinner and then dance together before going to bed. Pallas, who sleeps on the sofa, hears a knock at the door and answers it to...
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As the women start to return to bed, Gigi asks Pallas about her mother. Pallas reveals Dee Dee’s full name is Divine, and Gigi starts calling...
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Consolata
Back in the present, Pallas comes to bid farewell to Connie. Connie asks what Pallas intends to do about her...
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After a phone call with her father, Pallas dreads going back to school, where she knows she is already a laughingstock for running...
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...women are taken aback by this change in Connie, but none of them leave; even Pallas remains. Connie establishes a ritual called “loud dreaming,” which entails all the women lying naked...
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Lone
...that the responsibility for the incident lies solely with the men. Connie dies, murmuring that Pallas’s baby is asleep. Soane and Dovey’s relationship changes forever when Soane blames Steward alone for...
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Save-Marie
...father in prison. Later, she swims naked in a lake with a companion. A bald Pallas appears to Dee Dee, carrying her baby and a sword. Dee Dee tries to speak,...
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