“Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
“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
“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
“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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