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…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.

Barbara Kingsolver

When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.
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Everyday Want Window
Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
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Joy Men Rather Submission
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Found Rocks Swimming
I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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Decided Dresses Memorable
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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Cure First Kill
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
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 talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Rise Above Rising Talking
You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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might Next Splits
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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Grows Willing Wonder
It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Get One Thing Over
Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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Day Diagonal Human Nature
I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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Library Mind Soul
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they’re feeling because that’s how I read the seed catalogs in January.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Eye Hands Heart

…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.

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…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.

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