Jennifer Mugrage > Quotes

“Nothing is ever going to be perfect,” said Zillah. “Things are not meant to be perfect.”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“A tribe needed many stabilizers, as many as they could get.”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“The world was perverse, set up in such a way that bad decisions seemed obvious only in retrospect.”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“Eating at a time like this was important, all the more so because it was the last thing anyone wanted”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“A tribe needed many stabilizers, as many as they could get”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“He was in paradise”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“Their daily concerns were his; he felt them deeply.”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“Such waste could be deadly.”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“Dog or horse was, on the whole, a promotion.”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“It was amazing how having a goal, and taking action, made you stop caring about things like that.”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“His heart was empty, but light.”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“No one is perfect, you know”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“He was not a pretty man, but he had dazzled her by a slow dazzle with his bravery, his hard work, his complete absence of complaint.”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“This is good,” said Ikash to Sha, looking about. “The ash is all about us, but we are not being burned.”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“I will talk to him, my son. We will work it out.”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“You are makin’ me brave,” said Sha”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“Saying them, out loud, before God, organized and eased his thoughts about them.”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“Bad decisions seemed obvious only in retrospect.”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“It was not his policy to talk to strangers.”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“If you push people, they snap. It’s just like dogs. Or horses.”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“Nothing is ever going to be perfect, said Zillah.”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“No human being should go unaided when it was in her power to aid them.
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― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“An exhausted mind was both willful and nocturnal, like a cat.”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“They were so alone that they did not even need a name to call themselves by. They simply called themselves The People.
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― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“So Ikash let his younger relatives know that the spirit world was real. It was a not a place of fear only, but human beings were foolish, weak, and blind. It paid to be cautious. The snake was smarter than we were, but stupider too because he did not understand love.”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land