This character appears in 3 books.
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The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver
Leah Price: One of the twins, staunchly loyal to her father upon their arrival in Congo. Intelligent and practical; feels guilty for her twin sister Adah's affliction.
Memorable Quotes by Leah Price:
“Each one of us arrived with some extra responsibility biting into us under our garments: a claw hammer, a Baptist hymnal, each object of value replacing the weight freed up by some frivolous thing we'd found the strength to leave behind. Our journey was to be a great enterprise of balance. My father, of course, was bringing the Word of God - which fortunately weighs nothing at all.”
“It struck me what a wide world of difference there was between our sort of games - "Mother May I?," "Hide and Seek" -- and his: "Find Food," "Recognize Poisonwood," "Build a House." And here was a boy no older than eight or nine. He had a younger sister who carried the family's baby everywhere she went and hacked weeds with her mother in the manioc field. I could see that the whole idea and business of Childhood was nothing guaranteed. It seemed to me, in fact, like something more or less invented by white people and stuck onto the front end of grown-up life like a frill on a dress.”
“She flew forward and back and I watched her shadow in the white dust under the swing. Each time she reached the top of her arc beneath the sun, her shadow legs were transformed into the thin, curved legs of an antelope, with small rounded hooves at the bottom instead of feet. I was transfixed and horrified by the image of my sister with antelope legs. I knew it was only shadow and the angle of the sun, but it's still frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.”
“I always thought I could fly away home. Now I've pulled the ace out of the hole, taken a good look, and found it's worthless to me, devalued over time. An old pink Congolese bill.”
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