Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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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I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?
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There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
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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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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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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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There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.
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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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I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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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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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Last time I talked to her she didn’t sound like herself. She’s depressed. It’s awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they’re no good.
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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.
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