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Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.

Barbara Kingsolver

Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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Betrayal Heads Perfect Tails
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Farmers Farms Virginia
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Criminal Inspirational Memories Mind
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
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Believe Heart Kids
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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Circumstances Given Turns
It’s a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can’t begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
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Discipline Funny Things Writing
Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man’s skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people’s back yards.
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Father Heart Men
Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Animal Miracle Vegetables
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

Book Expectations People
Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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Contagious Done Sleep
A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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Busybodies Hazards Thinking
Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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Everything Right Sure Travel
Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
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Feet Feminist Girl
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Perfect Time Writing
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
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Funny Life Running

Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.

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