If it’s important, your heart remembers.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
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Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.
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I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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It’s terrible to lose somebody, but it’s also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that’s got to be so much worse.
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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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It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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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.
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In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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There are some who’d hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think’s been too lucky.
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Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
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We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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