Quote 16
I added "Baka veh." This means, "We don't pay for that," which is how you say that you don't believe. (3.1.12)
Guess what? We have an almost identical idiom: "We don't buy that," as in: "People landing on the moon? Yeah, I so don't buy that." So, what's the relationship between belief and money?
Quote 17
Two dots an inch apart, as small and tidy as punctuation marks at the end of a sentence none of us could read. The sentence would have started somewhere just above her heart. (4.9.8)
The snake bite is Ruth May's death sentence. No one can read it, because no one knows where it ends … although, according to Kingsolver, it appears to end up in a tree.
Quote 18
"Everything has to eat something." Even lions, I suppose. (3.5.12)
Adah shrugs off almost getting devoured by a lion. To her, it's all part of the natural way of life. Who is she to deny a lion a good meal?