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“As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn't touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn't stop.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
“She looked like Cinderella in reverse, stepped out from her life at the ball for a day of misery among the ashes.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
“There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.”
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“I am telling you what I’m telling you. Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you are good, bad things can still happen. And if you are bad, you can still be lucky.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
“If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
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