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Demon Copperhead

Barbara Kingsolver

Top 10 Best Quotes

“The wonder is that you could start life with nothing, end with nothing, and lose so much in between.”

“a good story doesn’t just copy life, it pushes back on it.”

“I think most of humankind would agree, the hard part of high school is the people.”

“People love to believe in danger, as long as it's you in harm's way, and them saying bless your heart.”

“There’s this thing that happens, let’s say at school where a bunch of guys are in the bathroom, at the urinal, laughing about some dork that made an anus of himself in gym. You’re all basically nice guys, right? You know right from wrong, and would not in a million years be brutal to the poor guy’s face. And then it happens: the dork was in the shitter. He comes out of the stall with this look. He heard everything. And you realize you’re not really that nice of a guy. This is what I would say if I could, to all smart people of the world with their dumb hillbilly jokes: We are right here in the stall. We can actually hear you.”

“It’s safer knowing more about people than they know about you.”

“I felt the kindliness of the moss, which is all over everywhere once you get out of the made world. God’s flooring. All the kinds, pillowy, pin-cushiony, shag carpet. Gray sticks of moss with red heads like matchsticks. Some tiny dead part of me woke up to the moss and said, Man. Where you been.”

“I said probably they were just scared he was going to put ideas in our heads. She smiled. “Imagine that. A teacher, putting ideas in kids’ heads.”

“At the time, I thought my life couldn’t get any worse. Here’s some advice: Don’t ever think that.”

“The first to fall in any war are forgotten. No love gets lost over one person’s reckless mistake. Only after it’s a mountain of bodies bagged do we think to raise a flag and call the mistake by a different name, because one downfall times a thousand has got to mean something. It needs its own brand, some point to all the sacrifice.”

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Book Keywords:

misery

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