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
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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 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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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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