CherieBiebie

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about CherieBiebie.


A Deadly Education
CherieBiebie is currently reading
by Naomi Novik (Goodreads Author)
bookshelves: currently-reading, fantasy
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Shuggie Bain
CherieBiebie is currently reading
by Douglas Stuart (Goodreads Author)
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Loading...
John Steinbeck
“The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

Henry Miller
“It's good to be just plain happy; it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how, in what way, because of what concatenation of events or circumstances, and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss, and if you have any sense you ought to kill yourself on tire spot and be done with it. And that's how I was-except that I didn't have the power or the courage to kill myself then and there. It was good, too, that I didn't do myself in because there were even greater moments to come, something beyond bliss even; something which if anyone had tried to describe to me I would probably not have believed.”
Henry Miller, The Colossus of Maroussi

Jessie Burton
“Everything Man sees he takes for a toy.
Thus is he always, forever a boy.”
Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

Alessandro Baricco
“To die of yearning for something you will never experience”
Alessandro Baricco, Silk

Yury Olesha
“(Things don’t like me. Furniture purposely sticks out its leg for me. A polished corner once literally bit me. My blanket and I have always had a complicated relationship. Soup served to me never cools. Any little thing—a coin or a cuff link—that falls off the table usually rolls away under furniture that’s hard to move. I crawl across the floor and lifting my head I see the sideboard laughing.)”
Yury Olesha, Envy

year in books
Avatar_...
376 books | 12 friends

Lien
788 books | 41 friends

Martina...
770 books | 51 friends

Rebecca
208 books | 16 friends

Ellen H...
942 books | 65 friends

Elise E...
160 books | 20 friends

Jennie
159 books | 14 friends

Vik
Vik
548 books | 35 friends

More friends…



Polls voted on by CherieBiebie

Lists liked by CherieBiebie