You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERHonk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It’s just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
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Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
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Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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