Diane Ackerman Quotes

In the early years of the Uprising, we survived on one meal a day of horse meat and soup, but by the end we ate only dried peas, dogs, cats and birds.

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• He thought about that for a moment, wondered what he should say. The truth or nothing. The truth.

  

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• In the early years of the Uprising, we survived on one meal a day of horse meat and soup, but by the end we ate only dried peas, dogs, cats and birds.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Dog
  • Horse
  • Cat