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Book: The Good Lord Bird
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James McBride _ The Good Lord Bird
They'll pull the trigger and tell the hammer to hurry.
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James McBride _ The Good Lord Bird
Not a week after Annie put her foot in Mrs. Huffmaster's duff, the Captain upped and laid down the date.
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James McBride _ The Good Lord Bird
If you think looking at three hundred boiling-mad, half-cocked Virginians holding every kind of breechloader under God's sun staring back at you with murder in their eyes is a ticket to redemption, you is on the dot.
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James McBride _ The Good Lord Bird
It occurred to me then that you is everything you are in this life at every moment.
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James McBride _ The Good Lord Bird
The Old Man's prayers was more sight than sound, really, more sense than sensibility. You had to be there: the aroma of burnt pheasant rolling through the air, the wide, Kansas prairie about, the smell of buffalo dung, the mosquitoes and wind eating at you one way, and him chawing at the wind the other. He was a plain terror in the praying department
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James McBride _ The Good Lord Bird
Everybody got God on their side in war. Problem is, God ain't tellin' nobody who He's for.
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James McBride _ The Good Lord Bird
The Negro comes in many colors. Dark. Black. Blacker. Blackest. Blacker than night. Black as hell. Black as tar.
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James McBride _ The Good Lord Bird
A body can't prosper if a person don't know who they are. That makes you poor as a pea, not knowing who you are inside. That's worse than being anything in the world on the outside.
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James McBride _ The Good Lord Bird
She wore a flowered blue dress of the type whores naturally favored, and that thing was so tight that when she moved, the daisies got all mixed up with the azaleas. She walked like a warm room full of smoke.
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James McBride _ The Good Lord Bird
Chase looked 'round and seen Frederick's grave where we'd buried him."Who's that?""Don't know. We been hiding in this thicket while the Free Staters was scouting 'round here. I heard 'em say it was one of theirs."Chase pondered the grave thoughtfully. "It's a fresh grave. We ought to see if who'sever in there got on boots," he said.
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James McBride _ The Good Lord Bird
...for one thing you learns when you is a girl is that most women's hearts is full of secrets.
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James McBride _ The Good Lord Bird
We all got to die," she said. "But dying as your true self is always better. God'll take you however you come to Him. But it's easier on a soul to come to Him clean. You're forever free that way. From top to bottom.
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