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I don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.

Barbara Kingsolver

It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Homecoming Memories Mindfulness
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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Adults Children People
They all attended Hester’s church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
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Church Pyramid Scheme
Last time I talked to her she didn’t sound like herself. She’s depressed. It’s awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they’re no good.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

People Running Thinking
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
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Ada Balance Trying
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Honesty Needs Truth
The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Appreciation Selfish Wise
You think you’re the foreigner here, and I’m the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that . . . to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I’m a foreigner, too.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

People President Thinking
Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Driving Honk Jesus Love
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Criminal Inspirational Memories Mind
What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Book Fall Rocks
One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Fun Hopeful Positive
There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Always Body Fenceline Stories
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Family Inspiring Mothers Day

I don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.

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