You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThe very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?
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High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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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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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
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Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
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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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The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.
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A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don’t know what I’m looking for. I just do it.
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Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
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