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But that’s the way life goes most of the time: the thing you least count on comes along and ruins everything else you got planned. I figure it’s much better to just be all-around prepared, since the best defense is a good offense.
Everyone knows that academics are the most ruthless cutthroats around.
It’s all that ‘America will be safe again’ nonsense—”
One: the dead will take everything you love. You have to end them before they can end you. That’s exactly what I aim to do. And two: the person poking the dead ain’t always the one paying for it. In fact, most times, it’s the ones minding their own business who suffer. That’s a problem I still don’t have an answer for yet.
“Sometimes you have to live down to people’s expectations, Kate. If you can do that, you’ll get much further in life.
This was a bad idea. This is the worst idea in the long and storied history of terrible ideas, right on up there with Julius Caesar marching up to the Roman Senate when he knew everyone wanted him dead.
That last bit is a lie, but the easiest lie to tell is the one people want to believe.
It’s a cruel, cruel world. And the people are the worst part.
I reckon we all have our childhood scars, whether we wear them on the outside or not.
“One summer, the garden was plagued by a rabbit. This wasn’t no ordinary rabbit, this was a hare of unnatural ability. It would always find a way inside of the fencing, filling itself up on the fruits of our labor. It was, as Momma said, a bastard of a rabbit.” Katherine gasps and looks around. “Jane! Such language.” “Let me finish my story. Anyway, Auntie Aggie and a few of the boys put out snares and traps galore, everything from crates baited with carrots and bits of lettuce to complicated tie snares I found in an old frontiersman’s book Momma had from her dead daddy. Nothing worked. Every
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