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The Poisonwood Bible

 Barbara Kingsolver
 

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Maybe I'll even confess the truth, that I rode in with the horsemen and beheld the apocolypse, but still I'll insist I was only a captive witness. What is the conqueror's wife if not a conquest herself?
 
 
 
The smiling bald man with the grandfather face has another face.
 
 
 
I felt the breath of God go cold on my skin.
 
 
 
"In the world, the carrying capacity for humans is limited. History holds all things in the balance, including large hopes and short lives."
 
 
 
I am the unmissionary, as Adah would say, beginning every day on my knees asking to be converted.
 
 
 
 
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