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When you have everything, the only luxury left is taking things away from others.
How do you improve yourself without challenging your mind? How do you leave a better world for your children?
As far as he was concerned, if your faith was shaken by foul words or sex scenes, then you
must not have had very much to begin with.
“Yeah, well, don’t give her too much credit. She didn’t invent it. Using fear to control people is about as old as time.”
“When did Lula start caring about any of that Lost Cause crap? I bet she thinks Manassas is something that happens if you don’t eat enough fiber.”
Secrets are a disease that eats away at your soul. My grandmother always said the best disinfectant is sunlight.”
But I want to make it perfectly clear that the issues addressed in this novel—book banning, white nationalism, anti-Semitism, etc.—are by no means unique to the South. These are American problems. Pretending they only occur in the South has allowed them to flourish unchecked elsewhere in the United States.
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