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It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.

Barbara Kingsolver

The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Community People
Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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Childhood Transition Unnoticed
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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Heart Moving Pain
Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Bird Nests Safe
You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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might Next Splits
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Perfect Time Writing
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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Lifetime Terror Thinking
The substance of grief is not imaginary. It’s as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.
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Air Both Grief Real Thing
You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own.
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Ideas Life Mother No Own
How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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Foolish Losing Loss
Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Determine Used World
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Honesty Needs Truth
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Charity Needs Want
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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Animal Born Mammals

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