You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThe substance of grief is not imaginary. It’s as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
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What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own.
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I know I’m a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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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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I prefer to remain anomalous.
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organization is the religion of the single parent.
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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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In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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Many of us who aren’t farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
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Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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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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Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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