…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.
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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The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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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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When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.
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The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.
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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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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Maybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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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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To people who think of themselves as God’s houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
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