Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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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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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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To people who think of themselves as God’s houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
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We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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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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You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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