The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne Quotes

“you chose to have a child, which means you chose to have your heart broken, over and over, for the rest of your life.”
― Ron Currie, The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne

“I remembered what I had been promised in school, and thought I could reject: that I would suffer. This is the only promise God makes.”
― Ron Currie, The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne

“You know what people ask for, more than anything, when they’re dying? They want to visit the house where they grew up. Go all the way back to the beginning,”
― Ron Currie, The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne

“The public school serves the public,” Babs told them. “Which means it serves a system. And systems need conforming rows of graded minds. Minds that only think about the right things, and fast. You will have slow, deep, dangerous-thinking minds.”
― Ron Currie, The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne

“Lori felt not just seen but exposed by the animal’s gaze, as if the fox were God Herself, but a different God from the one she’d learned about at Notre Dame Parish. This fox-god saw and knew all, just like the God she’d been instructed to believe in, but unlike Him the fox judged nothing. Her power and purpose was simply to observe and, in doing so, reveal Lori to herself in her entirety.”
― Ron Currie, The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne