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“But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.”
― Pigs in Heaven
― Pigs in Heaven
“In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.”
― The Bean Trees
― The Bean Trees
“Now, see, that's why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy...the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn't agree with you, all that's left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.”
― Flight Behavior
― Flight Behavior
“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.”
― 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
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