How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets.
("The Poisonwood Bible")
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Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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Nathan was something that happened to us, as devastating in its way as the burning roof that fell on the family Mwanza; with our fate scarred by hell and brimstone we still had to track our course. And it happened finally by the grace of hell and brimstone that I had to keep moving. I moved, and he stood still.
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Mi'ija, in a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is to make things as right as we can.
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Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.
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Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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