#The Poisonwood Bible

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The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep.

Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

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how I see the Poisonwood Bible girls btw. if you even care 😔

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The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver

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[irimarzz]

nothing hits harder than when you know a death in a book will happen, you know exactly when and how it'll it'll happen, and then you read it and it's just so much worse than you could have ever imagined.

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As a missionary kid reading The Poisonwood Bible for the first time I would like to humbly say I need Nathen Price to die immediately

[priest-iuput]

I am good at healing and being sick and oh, Ruth May…

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My little beast, my eyes, my favorite stolen egg. Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I’ve only found sorrow.

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 

[moookar]

ALSOOO i just finished part 4 of the Poisonwood Bible AUGHHH OUGHH OH MAN ALRIGHT OUCH. HOUGH. MAN.

[kalopsic-lagomorph]

recently started reading the poisonwood bible heres some of my fav quotes

"it lasted just a moment, whatever that is. one held breath? An ants afternoon?"

"they can sit, stand, talk, shake a stick at a drunk man, reach around their backs to fetch forth a baby to nurse, all without dropping their piled-high bundles upon bundles. they are like ballet dancers entirely unaware they are on a stage."

..."one-half set of perfect twins"...

"she grew strong as i grew weak. (yes! jesus loves me!)

this whole exchange:

"if god had amused himself inventing the lilies of the field, he surely knocked his own socks off with the african parasites"

"my daughters would say: you see, mother, you had no life of your own. they have no idea. one has only a life of one's own."

"maybe ill even confess the truth, that i rode in with the horsemen and beheld the apocalypse, but still ill insist i was only a captive witness. what is a conquerors's wife, if not a conquest herself."

"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."

this whole part also

"i can understand a wrathful god who'd just as soon dangle us all from a hook. And i can understand a tender, unpredjudice jesus. But i could never quite feature the two of them living in the same house."

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This is what it means to be very slow: every story you would like to tell has already ended before you can open your mouth.

Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

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I think Orleanna should be allowed to kill her husband. I think she should write a killer country song about it.

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High School Lit Tournament Side C

The Poisonwood Bible: The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it -- from garden seeds to Scripture -- is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa.

Heart of Darkness: Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad, was originally a three-part series in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899. It is a story within a story, following a character named Charlie Marlow, who recounts his adventure to a group of men onboard an anchored ship. The story told is of his early life as a ferry boat captain. Although his job was to transport ivory downriver, Charlie develops an interest in investing an ivory procurement agent, Kurtz, who is employed by the government. Preceded by his reputation as a brilliant emissary of progress, Kurtz has now established himself as a god among the natives in “one of the darkest places on earth.” Marlow suspects something else of Kurtz: he has gone mad. A reflection on corruptive European colonialism and a journey into the nightmare psyche of one of the corrupted, Heart of Darkness is considered one of the most influential works ever written.

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UGH the poison wood bible is SO GOOD I feel like I’ve been emotionally wrecked like 30 times while listening to it and I still have like 4 hours left what the fuck else could happen? Ruining my heart so so good. Barbara Kingsolver is my writing hero she can so brilliantly write to the strugles people are facing even in places she’s never been. I wish I had a physical copy so I could have marked passaged that move me <3

[irimarzz]

the poisonwood bible is without a doubt one of the best and most beautiful books I've ever read. the characters are all so enjoyable (minus nathan) even with all of their positive and negative traits. it's just so good and so well written and so interesting. I finished it yesterday but the ending just wrecked me emotionally so I haven't posted about it 😭