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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.

Barbara Kingsolver

I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Government Treats Way
The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.
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Appreciation Selfish Wise
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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Change Forgiveness Moving
If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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Tact Toes Walks
He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Life Need Rub Soul
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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Doe Numbers Revenge
…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Moving Slides Tasks
It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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Everything Freedom Give Great Love
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Found Rocks Swimming
Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.
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Borders Country Trying
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle Night Wonder
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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Circumstances Given Turns
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Criminal Inspirational Memories Mind
You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.
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Love People Running Trust
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Notebook Silence Writing

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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