Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
BARBARA KINGSOLVEROf the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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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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Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
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It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.
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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.
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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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Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
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The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business…I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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People ask without wanting to know.
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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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I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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Height isn’t something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.
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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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