Land of Dreams: a Novel
“I was glad of the wilderness and for the fact that I was, for these few hours at least, utterly alone. I could barely face myself, let alone another human being. I felt so stupid; so utterly humiliated by my own foolishness. I had destroyed Suri’s well-laid plan—and the welfare of those two old people—by being rash and willful and inconceivably stupid, not to mention arrogant and ignorant. What had I been thinking?
I briefly tried to pass the blame by wondering why nobody had stopped me, bu...t then—everyone had tried. Stan had told me not to go, and so had Bridie. Both had failed because of who I was: a pigheaded do-gooder who refused to mind her own business and determinedly bulldozed every bit of common sense that tried to stand in my way.
The rising sense of my own stupid failure kept overwhelming me. I would drive a few miles, then have to stop the truck and weep away the frustration at what I had done.
On one such stop I got out of the truck to get some water from the back.MoreLess
I briefly tried to pass the blame by wondering why nobody had stopped me, bu...t then—everyone had tried. Stan had told me not to go, and so had Bridie. Both had failed because of who I was: a pigheaded do-gooder who refused to mind her own business and determinedly bulldozed every bit of common sense that tried to stand in my way.
The rising sense of my own stupid failure kept overwhelming me. I would drive a few miles, then have to stop the truck and weep away the frustration at what I had done.
On one such stop I got out of the truck to get some water from the back.MoreLess
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