Demon Copperhead: A Novel
Her whole life she’d worked on sowing good things, and what she was reaping was, frankly, shit. It made her think of the story of Job.
Eliza Griswold • Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
One. Two. Three. Four. All in one fell swoop. We no longer believed there wouldn’t be five. Or six, or all. Loss is not spread equally. I have learned that lesson well. It is a lumpy porridge and a thin gruel, and fate does not consider the suffering of a mother and say, Perhaps I’ll spare her this time. There were many times in our season of death
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Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth.
Kurt Vonnegut • Breakfast of Champions
Live long enough, and all things you ever loved can turn around to scorch you blind. The wonder is that you could start life with nothing, end with nothing, and lose so much in between.