Beatriz Babey

“prayed for the poor and destitute in great cities, where the struggle for life was harder than it was here with us.”
― Willa Cather, My Ántonia

“The flame will cool tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow. . . . But someone must see this already today, and speak heretically today about tomorrow. Heretics are the only (bitter) remedy against the entropy of human thought.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“Nothing again. No one is listening. No one is waiting to hear the kicking of a man above. It is unexpected. You have no ears for someone like me.”
― Dave Eggers, What Is the What

“elaborate”
― Jean M. Auel, The Shelters of Stone