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Unsheltered QUOTES

Unsheltered QUOTES

1 " It was pretty clear there would be no stopping the Bullhorn, or someone like him. Here was the earthquake, the fire, flood, and melting permafrost, with everyone still grabbing for bricks to put in their pockets rather than walking out of the wreck and looking for light "

― Barbara Kingsolver , Unsheltered

2 " If it came to pass that Thatcher should shake hands with President Grant, as Polly predicted, he would still be a man who viewed life from the bottom of the ditch, not the top. "

― Barbara Kingsolver , Unsheltered

3 " Plus,” Tig said, “it reminds me to be patient. Seeing all these people that have passed on. I get frustrated sometimes, waiting.”“For people to die?”“Yeah. To be honest. The guys in charge of everything right now are so old. They really are, Mom. Older than you. They figured out the meaning of life in, I guess, the nineteen fifties and sixties. When it looked like there would always be plenty of everything. And they’re applying that to now. It’s just so ridiculous. "

― Barbara Kingsolver , Unsheltered

4 " Even this far inland, New Jersey was still recovering from Hurricane Sandy, which in its time, a few years back, had been called the storm of the century. How foolish it seemed now to label anything “of the century.” This one was still a teenager with an anger-management problem and a long future ahead. "

― Barbara Kingsolver , Unsheltered

5 " shambles in her sternum. "

― Barbara Kingsolver , Unsheltered

6 " When men fear the loss of what they know, they will follow any tyrant who promises to restore the old order.” “If that is our nature, then nature is madness. These are more dangerous times than we ever have known. "

― Barbara Kingsolver , Unsheltered

7 " Thatcher wondered what task could be more wearisome than shoring up a stupid man’s confidence in his own wisdom. "

― Barbara Kingsolver , Unsheltered

8 " Tig was a unique element with all valences open. "

― Barbara Kingsolver , Unsheltered

9 " the useful illusion that everything would be fine. It amazed her now to watch people walking through life with their ludicrous trust. "

― Barbara Kingsolver , Unsheltered

10 " it had been her mother who put Willa back together. When someone mattered like that, you didn’t lose her at death. You lost her as you kept living. "

― Barbara Kingsolver , Unsheltered

11 " They are all for the great captain, while he indentures them and eats their souls and property. Somehow he gets them to side against their own. "

― Barbara Kingsolver , Unsheltered

12 " When men fear the loss of what they know, they will follow any tyrant who promises to restore the old order.” “If that is our nature, then nature is madness. These are more dangerous times than we ever have "

― Barbara Kingsolver , Unsheltered

13 " The women of his family would become one with the earth’s creatures only by pressing the bones of whales against their rib cages until breathless. "

― Barbara Kingsolver , Unsheltered

14 " Truth is objective. A man should be respected for telling it, not threatened. "

― Barbara Kingsolver , Unsheltered

15 " But it was no exaggeration, he’d witnessed this very thing in a market square in Boston: the crude effigy dangling from a noose, the monkey’s tail pinned to the stuffed trousers, the murderous crowd chanting Lock him up! "

― Barbara Kingsolver , Unsheltered

16 " Scientific laws are not the property of a man. They exist outside of us. "

― Barbara Kingsolver , Unsheltered

17 " White is not an origin. It’s a mental construct of privilege. "

― Barbara Kingsolver , Unsheltered

18 " she believed material desires were toxic. "

― Barbara Kingsolver , Unsheltered

19 " First they would stagger, then grow competent, and then forget the difficulty altogether while thinking of other things, and that was survival. "

― Barbara Kingsolver , Unsheltered

20 " How had she not seen all this? Willa was the one who raised her anxiety shield against every family medical checkup or late-night ring of the phone, expecting the worst so life couldn’t blindside them. "

― Barbara Kingsolver , Unsheltered