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“Rubies and rocks are all the same to a box.”
― Karen Russell, The Antidote

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“Ask any stone or flower if it feels grateful to be here. Your mother does not have much advice to pass on, but I can tell you when to be wary. You should be grateful is a sentence that the powerful wield like a cudgel.”
― Karen Russell, The Antidote

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“Q: What is the evil this world runs on? A: Better you than me.”
― Karen Russell, The Antidote

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“In the center of the storm, I believed that the worst had happened. But I was wrong about that. The dust had another lesson to teach me: so long as you’re still drawing breath, there’s always more to lose.”
― Karen Russell, The Antidote

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“Cored cottonwood trees told a millennial story written in wavy circles that no politician had cared to read. Congressmen train themselves to think in election cycles, not planetary ones. They see spiking market highs and lows, and forget how to read in circles. Uz”
― Karen Russell, The Antidote

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