I looked at the woman crying over the doll and felt something else. I was sick of people acting against their own interests. Mooing about how to refinance the slaughterhouse. Putting skylights in the killing pen and pretending the bolt in the brain was a pathway to a better field. I paid my bill. Save your fucking pennies for a gun and a history book, I thought. Vanessa Veselka
About This Quote

This quote is about revenge. It says that people who use their money to buy things that are not useful are wasting their money. The writer suggests that the people who are wasting their money have the ability to do more things with their money, but instead are just using it to waste it on useless things.

Source: Zazen

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