I don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
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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I don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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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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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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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 loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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I’ve about decided that’s the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you’re a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.
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How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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… Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, ‘so far from everything?’ When I hear this question over the phone, I’m usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.
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