“God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
“It is true that I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
“Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
“The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
“I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
Should have read classics
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This is a group that is reading some of the classics that maybe we should have read but we got so turned off by "classics" we had to read in high scho ...more
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