Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThere was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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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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The way I see it, a person isn’t nothing more than a scarecrow… The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they’re stuck up there on.
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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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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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I’m widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I’m not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.
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I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Height isn’t something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.
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Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It’s the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.
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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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She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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