Deb Roby

“Tyler had seen village dogs trained in much the same way for the ring. When an animal was beaten hard enough, it would work just to not be beaten, and consider itself well rewarded. The status quo could shift at any time.”
― Erika Johansen, The Invasion of the Tearling

“The risk her stories posed to others—and to herself—was more subtle. When she was younger, she had used secrets as if they were currency, but she’d found out how secrets could use her instead by becoming stronger than she. It happened whenever she couldn’t stay away from a secret—drawn to it the way Georg Weiler was drawn to the bottle—though she sensed it would be better for her not to know.”
― Ursula Hegi, Stones from the River

“It was really difficult to believe you had a right to argue when you were confronted by wise-looking men telling you that you did not.”
― Sage Blackwood, Miss Ellicott's School for the Magically Minded

“In the rush to industrialize farming, we’ve lost the understanding, implicit since the beginning of agriculture, that food is a process, a web of relationships, not an individual ingredient or commodity.”
― Dan Barber, The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food