It’s terrible to lose somebody, but it’s also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that’s got to be so much worse.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERA flower is a plant’s way of making love.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It’s just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.
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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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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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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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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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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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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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She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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