Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
BARBARA KINGSOLVEREvery betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
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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.
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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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People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman’s coal buttons.
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The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
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Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
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I didn’t study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction in the scientific way. I love invention, obviously; I love creation of character. But I do feel very rooted in the real world, even in the way that I create characters.
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If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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Everything truly important is washable.
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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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