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Barbara Kingsolver _ Unsheltered
Iano ordered her back to Ivins to finish her degree in biology. Willa wondered when he would notice Tig was immune to his directives. Tig informed her parents she refused to take out bank loans, with tuition exchange no longer an option, and anyway she'd already learned more than she wanted to know about a ravaged biosphere. The latter was no news to Willa, who'd seen how the girl always took the truth of human selfishness harder than any of her friends, even the history majors.
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Barbara Kingsolver _ Unsheltered
Willa believed in the power of worry to keep another human from flying out of orbit.
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Barbara Kingsolver _ Unsheltered
Mary and Thatcher had lived in enviable times, when biologists were discovering new species right and left, not watching them go extinct.
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Barbara Kingsolver _ Unsheltered
A mother can be only as happy as her unhappiest child
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Barbara Kingsolver _ Unsheltered
He said he could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and people would still vote for him. Am I dreaming this?" Willa asked."No.""No. He said that. It couldn't have been more than a week ago.""Apparently he was right.""Iano, nobody gets away with murder. You can't behave like a madman when you're running for public office. That kind of trash talk is supposed to end careers.
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Barbara Kingsolver _ Unsheltered
One percent of the brotherhood has their hands on most of the bread. They own the country, their god is the free market, and most people are so unhorrified they won't even question the system. If it makes a profit, that's the definition of good. If it grows, you have to stand back and let it. The free market has exactly the same morality as a cancer cell.
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Barbara Kingsolver _ Unsheltered
Really it's just down to a handful of guys piling up everything they can grab and sitting on top of it. And a million poor jerks like Papu still hoping they can get into the club. How long can that last? Five or six more years?
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Barbara Kingsolver _ Unsheltered
Don't count on it. There's a lot of white folks out there hanging on to their God-given right to look down on some other class of people
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Barbara Kingsolver _ Unsheltered
Imagine if each of these grew to be a maple. There should be no room in Vineland for us to stand between them. It's the same with mice or dandelions. Many more seeds and pups are dropped than may prosper. Otherwise we would be pressed like keepsakes among all the flora and fauna of this planet. Our saving grace, ladies and gentlemen, is what?" He watched mouths move in a silent chorus: Death. "Yes. Our salvation is the reaper. The mouse reaps the seed, the cat reaps the mouse. By its infinite means, death overpowers
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Barbara Kingsolver _ Unsheltered
At his last checkup the pediatrician had observed the howling red face and trembling limbs, and said that infants process grief as trauma. Then suggested they try a different formula.
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Barbara Kingsolver _ Unsheltered
So if it's not this exact prophet of self-indulgence we're looking to for reassurance, it will be some other liar who's good at distracting us from the truth.
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Barbara Kingsolver _ Unsheltered
How are people so irrational?" he asked, but he knew. Even the abolitionists had no wish to be placed inside creation, subject to its laws. They wished to rule over it from the head of God's table.
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