They all attended Hester’s church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThe talkers are rising above the thinkers.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don’t attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
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There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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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 read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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A sound-bite culture can’t discuss science very well. Exactly what we’re losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can’t be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up.
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Maybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.
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