Imagine a ruin so strange it must never have happened.
("The Poisonwood Bible")
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My thoughts kept straying onto random paths...hoping to get lost in a thicket.
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How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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Codi Gives you the willies, doesn't it The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop referring to cliff dwellings Loyd No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
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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.
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But we've all ended up giving body and soul to Africa, one way or another. Even Adah, who's becoming an expert in tropical epidemiology and strange new viruses. Each of us got our heart buried in six feet of African dirt; we are all co-conspirators here. I mean, all of us, not just my family. So what do you do now? You get to find your own way to dig out a heart and shake it off and hold it up to the light again.
Barbara Kingsolver
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