Becca’s Reviews > Mother Mary Comes to Me > Status Update

“…I wasn’t being self-sacrificing and generous. I believe in the axion “Beware of the person that sacrifices.” (Because they soon become insufferable and extract a price far greater than what they sacrificed.)” pg 237

“I don’t know much about India. I’ve never been. To be honest, I wasn’t even sure whether Arundhati [Aroonditty] was the name of a man or a woman. But when I read the book, I felt as though somebody had shot some heroin up my arm.” Pg 205

“Where ru from?” “The more our world fractures into dagger-shaped shards, the more we club each other to death with our genes, our gods, our flags, our languages, the color of our skin, the purity of our roots, our histories both true and false—the more my answer to that question remains the same. I'm here now. It isn't a slogan or a solution to anything. Just the personal feelings of an off-grid drifter.”

“They had little or no respect for the place in which or the people among whom they were playing out their stopgap fantasies before they went back to their regular lives.[…]When they said they loved cows or drew on the peace pipe saying[…]or greeted each other with a namaste, it made my teeth curl. Sthing abt living among them, sthing about the shallow violence of tourists in a tourist paradise, offended me.”