Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERNow I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down.” – Mrs. Brown
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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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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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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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It’s one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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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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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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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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There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.
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I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it “intently political.” I’m just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.
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… Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, ‘so far from everything?’ When I hear this question over the phone, I’m usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.
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The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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