Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERI don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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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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Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.
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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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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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Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
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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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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.
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Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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It’s a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can’t begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they’re feeling because that’s how I read the seed catalogs in January.
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