Ruby Hand

“I wanted to go home. Which was nowhere, but it's a feeling you keep having, even after that's no longer a place anymore. Probably if they dropped a bomb and there wasn't any food left on the planet, you'd still keep feeling hungry too.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“There will always be those that look down on your station in life and call it a sty, but if you get in there and wallow, that’s on you.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“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.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“It’s in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.” Charles Dickens, David Copperfield”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead