8 Quotes by Karl Taro Greenfeld

God bless you,” Jeb said. “Not God. It’s just people. People helping people. That’s all we got.

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.

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.)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.