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 KINGSOLVERHeight isn’t something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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People ask without wanting to know.
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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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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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I’m concerned that’s like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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There are some who’d hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think’s been too lucky.
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Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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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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A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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