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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERWhy is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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I don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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A sound-bite culture can’t discuss science very well. Exactly what we’re losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can’t be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don’t know what I’m looking for. I just do it.
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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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For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
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Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Now, see, that’s why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy…the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn’t agree with you, all that’s left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.
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You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.
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Everything truly important is washable.
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