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.
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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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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Don’t wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.
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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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It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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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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That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don’t know how a person could ever describe that scent.
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Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
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She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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