Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERInsomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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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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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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There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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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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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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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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Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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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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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
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Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies.
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Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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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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