Spotlight on Fandoms :: The Poisonwood Bible

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I could really go on forever about this book. Thankfully, I only went on for a really long time for my spotlight of The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, and kept it relatively free of my tendency to pick out my favourite quotes. This is partially due to the fact that this would require me transcribing about half the book. So, let's just get right to it, shall we?

( First, picture the forest. I want you to be its conscience, the eyes in the trees. )

( Every space is filled with life: delicate, poisonous frogs war-painted like skeletons, clutched in copulation, secreting their precious eggs onto dripping leaves. )

( Away down below now, single file on the path, comes a woman with four girls in tow, all of them in shirtawist dressed. Seen from above this way they are pale, doomed blossoms, bound to appeal to your sympathies. )

(  Be careful. Later on you'll have to decide what sympathy they deserve. )

( I was born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible. )

The end. *bow* Questions, comments, demands for Cliff's Notes next time encouraged. :)