She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERShe kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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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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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.
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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
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Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.
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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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All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.
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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.
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There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.
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How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer’s long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn’t touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn’t stop.
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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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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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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.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
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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.
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The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they’re feeling because that’s how I read the seed catalogs in January.
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Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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