There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don’t move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
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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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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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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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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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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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Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
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There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
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It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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