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A flower is a plant’s way of making love.

Barbara Kingsolver

Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it’s going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.
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Real Thinking Writing
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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Adults Children People
Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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Childhood Transition Unnoticed
…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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Kindness Momentous Shoulder World
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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might Next Splits
It’s one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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Else One Thing Somewhere
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
…prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.
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Heart Summer Wings
there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I’m concerned that’s like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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Dog People Political
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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Empathy Eye Looks
You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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Crazy People Self
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
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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Believe Father Mistake
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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Doe Numbers Revenge
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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Politician Promise War

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