Page 242 Quotes

“You shouldn't do that. Not to your child. You should-carry your own burdens.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“An Eskimo shaman said, "Life’s greatest danger lies in the fact that man’s food consists entirely of souls".”
― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

“If I had my wilderness, nature could be my lover. What can I do in the paved streets for my thirsty roots? I waste time. I encourage fools. I slip the vital hours into penny slot machines -- to pass time, to start my stuck wheels only love can oil.”
― Elizabeth Smart, Necessary Secrets: The Journals of Elizabeth Smart

“...as zookeepers, the Zabinskis understood both vigilance and predators; in a swamp of vipers, one planned every footstep. Shaped by the gravity of wartime, it wasn't always clear who or what could be considered outside or inside, loyal or turncoat, predator or prey.”
― Diane Ackerman

“It could have been a performance, the tragedian now. But at least a part of it was real. And it was real later when the deputy started to take him away.”
― Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man

“You were very brave doing that needlessly dangerous thing you were in no way required to do.”
― Alexis Hall, Something Fabulous