Melanie

“Aunts standing close in the kitchen like cigarettes in the pack, uncles splayed on furniture like butts in the ashtray.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“I wondered if DSS had anything like Step 9, where you eventually have to apologize to all the kids you’ve screwed over.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“There’s this thing that happens, let’s say at school where a bunch of guys are in the bathroom, at the urinal, laughing about some dork that made an anus of himself in gym. You’re all basically nice guys, right? You know right from wrong, and would not in a million years be brutal to the poor guy’s face. And then it happens: the dork was in the shitter. He comes out of the stall with this look. He heard everything. And you realize you’re not really that nice of a guy. This is what I would say if I could, to all smart people of the world with their dumb hillbilly jokes: We are right here in the stall. We can actually hear you.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“Maggot calmed me down by explaining Bible stories were a category of superhero comic. Not to be confused with real life.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead