That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don’t know how a person could ever describe that scent.
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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Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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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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A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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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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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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I’m widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I’m not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.
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The way I see it, a person isn’t nothing more than a scarecrow… The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they’re stuck up there on.
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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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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
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