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The Poisonwood Bible (1998)
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Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. I can understand a wrathful God who'd just as soon dangle us all from a hook. And I can understand a tender, unprejudiced Jesus. But I could never quite feature the two of them living in the same house. You wind up walking on eggshells, never knowing which... is at home at the moment.
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Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways as if we were both party to relations with a failed outcome. Or say I was afflicted with Africa like a bout of a rare disease from which I have not managed a full recovery.
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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best.
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My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit.
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God doesn't need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever.
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Don't try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you're good, bad things can still happen. And if you're bad, you can still be lucky.
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If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business.
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A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body and soul.
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When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday...
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
George Santayana
Barbara Kingsolver
Born:
April 8, 1955
(age 69)
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