Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

Quotes

• “I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. I can understand ...”
• “A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine ever...”
• “He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. "Sending a girl to college is like pouring water i...”
• “I wonder that religion can live or die on the strength of a faint, stirring breeze. The scent trail shifts, causing the ...”
• “Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re go...”
• “A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscie...”
• “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...”
• “I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a...”
• “To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know.”
• “God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.”
• “Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.”