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“Live long enough, and all things you ever loved can turn around to scorch you blind. The wonder is that you could start life with nothing, end with nothing, and lose so much in between.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

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“Kids up there evidently had brains coming out their ears, to the extent of needing to meet up with other kids for brain-to-brain combat.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

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“Certain pitiful souls around here see whiteness as their last asset that hasn’t been totaled or repossessed.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

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“People love to believe in danger, as long as it’s you in harm’s way, and them saying bless your heart.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

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“The first to fall in any war are forgotten. No love gets lost over one person’s reckless mistake. Only after it’s a mountain of bodies bagged do we think to raise a flag and call the mistake by a different name, because one downfall times a thousand has got to mean something. It needs its own brand, some point to all the sacrifice.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

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