“God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
“What if one out of every three multinational corporation CEO's were raped every year? Don't you think that would raise a kind of ruckus?”
― Cunt: A Declaration of Independence
― Cunt: A Declaration of Independence
“Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
“To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
“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.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
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