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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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I prefer to remain anomalous.
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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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Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
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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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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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Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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