Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERCodi: Gives you the willies, doesn’t it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it “intently political.” I’m just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.
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There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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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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There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
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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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…prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.
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It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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