Quotes & Sayings About Ruth May Poisonwood Bible

I'm sorry to disappoint you, but my experience belongs to me, not the collective bloody unconscious. — Ian McEwan

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war — Otto Von Bismarck

This better be good, cat. You're stupid Summoning spell could've killed me! What is it you want?-Meghan Chase to Grimalkin. — Julie Kagawa

I've never been so scared in my life. I thought that shark was going to eat you."
TJ hugged me, resting his chin on the top of my head. "It didn't though."
"We're going to eat him now, aren't we?" I asked.
"Oh, hell yes," he said, a big grin on his face. — Tracey Garvis-Graves

One has to kill a few of one's natural selves to let the rest grow - a very painful slaughter of innocents. — Henry Sidgwick

I'd always maintained that much of the anarchy and craziness of the early Internet had a lot to do with the fact that governments just hadn't realised it was there. — William Gibson

Scapegoating worked in practice while it still had religious powers behind it. You loaded the sins of the city on to the goat's back and drove it out, and the city was cleansed. It worked because everyone knew how to read the ritual, including the gods. Then the gods died, and all of a sudden you had to cleanse the city without divine help. Real actions were demanded instead of symbolism. The censor was born, in the Roman sense. Watchfulness became the watchword: the watchfulness of all over all. Purgation was replaced by the purge. — J.M. Coetzee

Animals howl, he had been told, to declare their existence. — Dave Eggers