Status Updates From The Pearl

Lowkey love this??? Also my mom loves John Steinbeck so I feel like I have to like it

“We do know that we are cheated from birth to the overcharge on our coffins. But we survive. You have defied not the pearl-buyers, but the whole structure, the whole way of life, and I am afraid for you.”

“And Juana, sitting by the fire hole, watched him with questioning eyes, and when he had buried his pearl she asked, ‘Who do you fear?’
Kino searched for a true answer, and at last he said, ‘Everyone.’”

“And this Kino knew also—that the gods do not love men’s plans, and the gods do not love success unless it comes by accident. He knew that the gods take their revenge on a man if he be successful through his own efforts.”

A classic example of what could happen to a man’s ego when he gain power.

“For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this is said in disparagement, whereas it is one of the greatest talents the species has and one that has made it superior to animals that are satisfied with what they have.”