[b]Barbara Kingsolver
The past is all we know of the future.[/b]
And, every now and again, the present.
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
Not the ones I read.
War so conspicuously benefits rich men and kills the poor ones.
Next up: the inconspicuous benefits.
The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
Actually, the most important parts, are the pieces that you can’t know.
Mi’ija, in a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is to make things as right as we can.
Or as less wrong as we can.
You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
We’ll need details of course.