Tara’s Reviews > Parable of the Sower > Status Update

“‘I wish you could’ve known this country when it was still salvageable’
‘It might survive,’ I said, ‘changed, but still itself’l

“Sometimes jobs like that are the only jobs—slave or slave driver. I heard that just on this side of the Canada border there are a lot of factories with jobs like that’”

“You tend to resent the people you’re afraid of”

“But then, there’s nothing more replaceable than unskilled labor”

“The world is full of painful stories. Sometimes it seems as though there aren’t any other kind and yet I found myself thinking how beautiful that glint of water was through the trees”

“The national guard has been activated to restore order, and I suppose it might. But I suspect that in the short term it will only add to the chaos. What else could another group of well armed people do in such an insane situation…some will discover that they enjoy their new power—the power that makes others submit, the power to take what they want—property, sex, life…” crazy how dystopia is real rn

This book is giving me anxiety man

“The weak can overcome the strong if the weak persist. Persisting isn’t always safe, but it’s often necessary”