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 KINGSOLVERYour dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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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 kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
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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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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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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
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Last time I talked to her she didn’t sound like herself. She’s depressed. It’s awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they’re no good.
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The way I see it, a person isn’t nothing more than a scarecrow… The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they’re stuck up there on.
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Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
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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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I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don’t move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
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Don’t wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
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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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