Sentences with phrase «leg bones ached»

Before there was an American Story, before Paterson spread before Oscar and Lola like a dream, or the trumpets from the Island of our eviction had even sounded, there was their mother, Hypatía Belicia Cabral: a girl so tall your leg bones ached just looking at her, so dark it was as if the Creatrix had, in her making, blinked who, like her yet - to - be-born daughter, would come to exhibit a particularly Jersey malaise — the inextinguishable longing for elsewheres.