School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERHonk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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It’s one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
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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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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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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
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There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
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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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Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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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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