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Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?

Barbara Kingsolver

The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Important Pieces Stories
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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Life Out Views Work
The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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Animal Average Vacation
The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Rise Above Rising Talking
Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.
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Borders Country Trying
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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Honesty Needs Truth
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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Before Human Unnoticed World
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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Cure First Kill
You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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Crazy People Self
Many of us who aren’t farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
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Past Real Secret
There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Always Body Fenceline Stories
As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer’s long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn’t touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn’t stop.
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Dark Grief Moving
There 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.
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Believe Grief Track
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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Else One Thing Somewhere
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Differences Father Tasks
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
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Alive Different Views

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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