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“I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow...I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
“You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.”
― The Secret Life of Bees
― The Secret Life of Bees
“Every human being on the face of the earth has a steel plate in his head, but if you lie down now and then and get still as you can, it will slide open like elevator doors, letting in all the secret thoughts that have been standing around so patiently, pushing the button for a ride to the top. The real troubles in life happen when those hidden doors stay closed for too long.”
― The Secret Life of Bees
― The Secret Life of Bees
“He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
― Angela’s Ashes
― Angela’s Ashes
“It is true that I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
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