scarcity Quotes

“He came from a large family—thirteen, fourteen, fifteen: I don’t know how many—and he had to fight for every crumb of food he got.”

“Worrying about scarcity is our culture’s version of post-traumatic stress. It happens when you’ve been through too much, and rather than coming together to heal (which requires vulnerability), we’re angry and scared and at each other’s throats.”

“There is scarcely any passion without struggle.”

“Nothing is sweeter, but that which is scarce.”

There is never enough to go around in an asylum, so things are always skimpy—at least in a poor asylum like ours.