This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERIn a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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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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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.
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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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Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies.
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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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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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The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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It’s a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can’t begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
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