Quotes from Karl Taro Greenfeld

the harsh truth of every relationship, even between those who love each other, like fathers and sons and daughters, or husbands and wives, is that the love is always unequal.

lacerating pilgrimage…the disruptive and expensive treks from specialist to specialist, city to city, trying to buy hope." Or what Pearl S. Buck, years earlier about her own retarded and autistic child, calls, "That long journey of which parents of such children know so well…Driven by conviction that there must be someone who can cure…we

That left Jeb to work for whatever the bosses offered under the National Right to Work Act--the minimum wage having been abolished--enough to keep them fed and the car gassed but not enough for a roof or to save much more than coins.

There's something wrong in the world,' Sargam said, 'when good people, honest people, can't sleep under a roof or share a meal around a table.

We want an apocalypse to look like an apocalypse, not a slow day at the mall.

There were monkeys from India and Bangladesh, musk oxen from Tibet, snakes and lizards from Thailand and Laos, wild dogs from Burma, birds from Vietnam and Indonesia, and bats from Wuhan and Guizhou.

The view from the apartment's one window was of another building's gray ferroconcrete wall, which was intermittently lit by the white neon flicker from the Ringer Hut noodle shop sign across the street. As

At no point in his cramming for his upcoming confrontation with Gemma did the words "I'm sorry" cross his mind.

Before that, she was an elementary school teacher, until the state stripped the unions of collective bargaining rights in the Right to Learn Act, subcontracting public school education to for-profit corporations. She still missed teaching, but that was strictly an hourly-wage temp job now, for those lucky enough to get hired.

God bless you," Jeb said. "Not God. It's just people. People helping people. That's all we got.

That took the view that every misbehavior, every cruelty perpetuated by one kid on another should be let slide in the name of letting kids be kids? (Let them be kids, really let them, and you will end up with a tribe of bulimic eugenicists with huge amounts of credit card debt.)