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Barbara Kingsolver

I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Knives Memories Novelist
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
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Daughter Day Mom Mother
Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
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Fortune How Know Same Wear
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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Book Jumping Magic
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
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Always Downstream Else Someone
Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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Creativity People Writing
It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
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Enough People Wells
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
But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.
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Job Mother Running
Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.
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Blow Blue Sky
There are some who’d hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think’s been too lucky.
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Kindness Rocks Thinking
Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.
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Alone Being Life Writing
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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Important Knows Persons
Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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Doorways Starting Thinking
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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People Running Thinking
Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.
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Animal Song Vegetables
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Balance Expectations Pajamas
A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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Doe Dog Thinking
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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Prayer Transactions
The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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Animal Average Vacation

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