The Strange Land Quotes

“Nothing is ever going to be perfect,” said Zillah. “Things are not meant to be perfect.”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“A tribe needed many stabilizers, as many as they could get.”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“The world was perverse, set up in such a way that bad decisions seemed obvious only in retrospect.”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“Eating at a time like this was important, all the more so because it was the last thing anyone wanted”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“A tribe needed many stabilizers, as many as they could get”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“Their daily concerns were his; he felt them deeply.”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“He was in paradise”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“Such waste could be deadly.”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“Dog or horse was, on the whole, a promotion.”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“He was not a pretty man, but he had dazzled her by a slow dazzle with his bravery, his hard work, his complete absence of complaint.”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“It was amazing how having a goal, and taking action, made you stop caring about things like that.”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“His heart was empty, but light.”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“No one is perfect, you know”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“This is good,” said Ikash to Sha, looking about. “The ash is all about us, but we are not being burned.”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“Saying them, out loud, before God, organized and eased his thoughts about them.”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“Bad decisions seemed obvious only in retrospect.”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“I will talk to him, my son. We will work it out.”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“You are makin’ me brave,” said Sha”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“Nothing is ever going to be perfect, said Zillah.”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“If you push people, they snap. It’s just like dogs. Or horses.”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“It was not his policy to talk to strangers.”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“No human being should go unaided when it was in her power to aid them.
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― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“An exhausted mind was both willful and nocturnal, like a cat.”
― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

“They were so alone that they did not even need a name to call themselves by. They simply called themselves The People.
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― Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land