“There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
“Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
“Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
“Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.”
― 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
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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