“People who live on hills sleep so close to the stars they forget those of us who live too much on earth. They don’t look down at all except to be content to live on hills. They have nothing to do with last week’s garbage or fear of rats. Night comes. Nothing wakes them but the wind.”
Bums in the Attic from The House on Mango Street, pp. 86-7
By Sandra Cisneros
Published 1984
“She called Joseph the desert, one summer afternoon when we were all walking along the Santa Monica Pier, because, she explained, he was an ecosystem that simply needed less input.”
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, p. 52
By Aimee Bender
Published 2010