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81 " 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. "
― Barbara Kingsolver , Unsheltered
82 " If trained to nature from an early age, could a mind be freed from its vendetta against the world's creatures? "
83 " we consume. I think that’s just how we have to be.” “Of course you think that. When everybody around you thinks the same way, you can’t even see what you’re believing in. "
84 " Autumn darkness had already blinded the dining room windows, an effect that dispirited him, no matter how many autumns he lived or how predictably the light receded. "
85 " As to the career of avoiding making enemies. You can’t dig any burrow deep enough. Might as well stand and look them in the eye. "
86 " To stand in the clear light of day, you once said. Unsheltered. "
87 " No one. I’m a pawn in this game. You’re always first to say how unimportant I am. But at least I will be the pawn who tells the truth. "
88 " capitalism, with its need for endless growth, is no longer viable? That we, the middle class, have to learn not to want so much? "
89 " Teaching struck Willa as a saintly calling, especially given the pay. But even saints shouldn't be stuck with intro classes forever. "
90 " The one thing you can trust is your kids will have more, not less. And now "
91 " For starters,” she said, “you acknowledge that stimulate is a synonym for stealing from the future. "
92 " That the electorate could validate such a mean, grabby, self-aggrandizing man. At any level. "
93 " I suppose it is in our nature,” she said finally. “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.” * "
94 " the secret of happiness is low expectations. "
95 " already with needles inside. “Tig just "
96 " Without shelter, we stand in daylight.” “Without shelter, we feel ourselves likely to die. "
97 " He assumed it was normal in a new marriage to feel one has joined forces with a stranger. "
98 " cradling the soup terrine that she set "
99 " bandicoots, Carruth. They’ll be wanting their happy "
100 " They both went quiet, imagining a river of irises. Thatcher lay watching the sky through the leaves, white clouds skipping across small lenses of light. Here was a world, where he’d asked for nothing. He would escape with his life before the dust had settled on the collapse of his falling house. "