Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

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Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.

Barbara Kingsolver

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BARBARA KINGSOLVER

I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Summer
It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Wells
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

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.
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President
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BARBARA KINGSOLVER

If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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BARBARA KINGSOLVER

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Anticipation
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Sweet
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BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Kids Two
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He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.
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BARBARA KINGSOLVER

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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

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BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
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Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
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Lucky Trying
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BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Nests
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Growing
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Church Pyramid Scheme

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