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 KINGSOLVERWhat 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.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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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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If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.
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It’s terrible to lose somebody, but it’s also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that’s got to be so much worse.
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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.
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It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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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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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
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Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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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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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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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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Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It’s the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.
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Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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