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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same

Barbara Kingsolver

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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Everyday Want Window
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Growing Safe Water
You don’t think you’ll live past it and you don’t really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that’s still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.
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Grief Past Thinking
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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Doe Numbers Revenge
the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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Errors Limited Resources Spiritual
From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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Kitchen Memories Men
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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People Terrible Thinking
If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
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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Eye Hands Heart
I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Knows Pretending
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Bird Nests Safe
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
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Empathy Literature People
A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Flower Making Love Way
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Balance Expectations Pajamas
Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don’t know what I’m looking for. I just do it.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Airplane Staring Steps

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