Just Deserts Quotes

“A fat tractor driver smoked hand-rolled cigarettes and occasionally nipped from a bottle hidden under his seat. At eleven each morning a cook threw scraps to four patiently waiting dogs. No matter what else was going on those dogs gathered by the kitchen door like clockwork. No wonder in that, thought Safiyya, the curs eat better than many of my own people. Horsemen rode fence lines every Monday, checking for breaks and rounding up stray cattle. Saturdays, around one, the workweek came to an end and many people drifted down the hill, in groups or alone, to shop, or perhaps visit friends and relatives in the nearby village. Some rode horses, some walked, a few drove battered cars or pickups.”
― Jinx Schwartz, Just Deserts

“She sketched people, noting their habits. This information was to be shared with others at the camp, even though she instinctively disliked these men.”
― Jinx Schwartz, Just Deserts

“I was then operating under the Edna Ferber theory: Being an old maid is like death by drowning—a really delightful sensation after you have ceased struggling.”
― Jinx Schwartz, Just Deserts

“so I ate a salad, no wine, popped those two aspirins prescribed by Jan, and slept like a baby, except I didn’t toss and turn, pee in my pants, or cry every two hours.”
― Jinx Schwartz, Just Deserts

“And as old Thomas Jefferson said, ‘Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not.’ I hate to plow.”
― Jinx Schwartz, Just Deserts

“was so depressed last night I called one of those suicide hot lines. I reached a call center in Pakistan. They got all excited and asked if I could drive a truck.—Anonymous on the Internet”
― Jinx Schwartz, Just Deserts