The Hillside Quotes

“Curiosity in humans is to be punished—it leads to disaster.”
― Jane Smiley, The Hillside

“Those who are especially destructive they call ‘wolves’ or ‘jackals,’ but there is no wolf or jackal in the world who has been remotely as destructive as the average human.”
― Jane Smiley, The Hillside

“cats swore that they had pretended to be domesticated to protect themselves—any cat who lived with a human did so under duress, and all cats escaped whenever they could.”
― Jane Smiley, The Hillside