The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career – my anti-job – that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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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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This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.
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This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.
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To people who think of themselves as God’s houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
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Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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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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…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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