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

Barbara Kingsolver

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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Enough People Wells
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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Cure First Kill
Last time I talked to her she didn’t sound like herself. She’s depressed. It’s awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they’re no good.
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People Running Thinking
No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Before Human Unnoticed World
I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don’t move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
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Mountain Moving Winning
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Knives Memories Novelist
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Differences Father Tasks
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Anticipation Hope Life
A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Flower Making Love Way
Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Cancer Depression Sadness
I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
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Poetry Summer Thinking
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Family Inspiring Mothers Day
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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Dog Voice Water
People ask without wanting to know.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Ask Knows People
We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Children Littles Magic
Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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Cost Greed Money

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

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