“Maybe he’s been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
“Another thing we should have brought: Listerine. Forty-five percent fewer colds. A”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
“Preventatives for old age are rampant here.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
“Understanding no choice but to burn with their children.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
“Anatole has been explaining to me the native system of government. He says the business of throwing pebbles into bowls with the most pebbles winning an election—that was Belgium’s idea of fair play, but to people here it was peculiar. To the Congolese (including Anatole himself, he confessed) it seems odd that if one man gets fifty votes and the other gets forty-nine, the first one wins altogether and the second one plumb loses. That means almost half the people will be unhappy, and according to Anatole, in a village that’s left halfway unhappy you haven’t heard the end of it. There is sure to be trouble somewhere down the line. The way it seems to work here is that you need one hundred percent.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
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