Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThey 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.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?
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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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Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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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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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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You don’t think you’ll live past it and you don’t really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that’s still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.
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I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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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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Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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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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