“God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
“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.”
― 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
“How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.”
― Prodigal Summer
― Prodigal Summer
Kelly’s 2025 Year in Books
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