If it’s important, your heart remembers.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThe way I see it, a person isn’t nothing more than a scarecrow… The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they’re stuck up there on.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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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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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn’t it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
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Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
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Maybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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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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Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.
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The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business…I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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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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Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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