This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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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I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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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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Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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To people who think of themselves as God’s houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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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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I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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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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Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
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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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People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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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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