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When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.

Barbara Kingsolver

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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Dog Voice Water
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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Dark Mouth Scent
Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It’s more like conversation, raising new questions and inspiring you to answer them for yourself.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Believe Moving Writing
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Anticipation Hope Life
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Balance Expectations Pajamas
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Change May Salvation
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Book Library Rip
Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
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Dream Grows Out Right Separate
Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.
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Animal Song Vegetables
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Found Rocks Swimming
A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Book Jumping Magic
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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Heart Moving Pain
I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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Library Mind Soul
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Family Inspiring Mothers Day
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing

When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.

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When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.

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