“‘Now you look!’ she said. ‘If God had consulted the cucumber before he made man, there would be less unhappy women in the world.’”
—John Steinbeck, A Russian Journal
Steinbeck is quoting an old widow he met on a village farm in Ukraine in 1948.
I like words, and more, words that are used well. This is where I collect them. Most I come across in the works of other authors, but on occasion I find some in the wild myself.