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A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.

Barbara Kingsolver

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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Book Expectations People
The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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Important Knows Persons
To think is not always to see.
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Always Thinking Visible
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Change May Salvation
Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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Childhood Transition Unnoticed
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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Meaningful Pain Spiritual
Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.
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Book Doubt Writing
Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man’s skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people’s back yards.
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Father Heart Men
It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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Dream Rabbits Soul
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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Life Thing World Wrong
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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Appreciation Selfish Wise
Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.
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Animal Song Vegetables
It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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Everything Freedom Give Great Love
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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Job Mother Running
He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.
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Believe Father Mistake
Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Always Downstream Else Someone

A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.

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