Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.
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Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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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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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
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The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business…I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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