Matthias’s Reviews > Parable of the Sower > Status Update

"I wanted to know about everything,and as I learned, I wanted to play with the knowledge, explore it, think about what it might mean, or where it might lead, write stories about it."

I stared down the hill from our camp where just a glint of water was visible in the distance through the trees and bushes. The world is full of painful stories. Sometimes it seems as though there aren't any other kind and yetI found myself thinking how beautiful that glint of water was through the trees.

Once people get the idea that it's all right to take what you want and destroy the rest, who knows when they'll stop.

People are setting fires because they're frustrated, angry, hopeless. They have no power to improve their lives, but they have the power to make others even more miserable. And the only way to prove to yourself that you have power is to use it.

Great book so far! Already eagerly looking on where to get my hands on the sequel. Doesn't seem to be widely available.

Drowning people sometimes die fighting their rescuers.