More quotes by Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

"God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves."
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"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 and pick up the pace."
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"He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. "Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes,' he still loves to say, as often as possible. 'It's hard to say which is worse, seeing it run out and waste the water, or seeing it hold in and wreck the shoes."
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"I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book."
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"Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history."
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