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Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.

Barbara Kingsolver

There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Always Body Fenceline Stories
Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Determine Used World
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Alone Inhumanity Once
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle Night Wonder
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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Circumstances Given Turns
One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.
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Fun Hopeful Positive
I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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Inspirational Learning Trying
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.
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Book Doubt Writing
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Found Rocks Swimming
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Dresses Expensive Memorable
Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
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Life Lucky Trying
It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Changed Frightening Love Things
Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
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Feet Feminist Girl
Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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Dog Voice Water

Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.

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Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.

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