Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forge… - William Faulkner

It was her wedding dress and it had a flare-out bottom, and they had laid her head to foot in it so the dress could spread out, and they had made her a veil out of a mosquito bar so the auger holes in her face wouldn’t show.

It's Cash and Jewel and Varadaman and Dewey Del', pa says kind of hangdog and proud too, with this teeth and all, even if he wouldn't look at us. 'Meet Mrs Bundren', he says.

You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.