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Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall

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There can be no greater intoxication, no purer feeling, than the moment when you meet your child after all the months of wondering and hoping and dreaming.

“I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. I can understand a wrathful God who'd just as soon dangle us all from a hook. And I can understand a tender, unprejudiced Jesus. But I could never quite feature the two of them living in the same house. You wind up walking on eggshells, never knowing which... is at home at the moment.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

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“He stamped me with a belief in justice, then drenched me in culpability, and I wouldn't wish such torment even on a mosquito.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

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