Mary Doria Russell Quote
They all knew it was gallows humor. There would be babies born to thirteen-year-olds who would show up at the clinic with stomachaches. Backs and shoulders wrenched, wrists damaged, knees torn at the kapok factory. Hands opaline with infected cuts, gone bad from the bacteria and toxins in the offal at the fish-processing plant. Sepsis, diabetes, melanomas, botched abortions, asthma, TB, malnutrition, STDs. Liquor and drugs and hopelessness and rage pounded deep into the gut. The poor you will always have with you, Jesus said. A warning, Emilio wondered, or an indictment?
Mary Doria Russell
They all knew it was gallows humor. There would be babies born to thirteen-year-olds who would show up at the clinic with stomachaches. Backs and shoulders wrenched, wrists damaged, knees torn at the kapok factory. Hands opaline with infected cuts, gone bad from the bacteria and toxins in the offal at the fish-processing plant. Sepsis, diabetes, melanomas, botched abortions, asthma, TB, malnutrition, STDs. Liquor and drugs and hopelessness and rage pounded deep into the gut. The poor you will always have with you, Jesus said. A warning, Emilio wondered, or an indictment?
