Billy Roberts

“Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will the white man realize he cannot eat money” was one of my father’s favorite sayings. “We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children”
― Karen Dionne, The Marsh King's Daughter

“Walter, don’t you find it interesting that people even use that term ‘act of God’? Considering that most want to believe that God is about lambs and love and babies in mangers, and yet this same so-called benevolent being smites innocent people left and right, indicating an anger management problem”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“It is not your imagination, she wrote on a third. Most people are awful.”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“But you have to accept responsibility for your decisions, even when they don’t work out the way you wanted.”
― Karen Dionne, The Marsh King's Daughter