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…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.

Barbara Kingsolver

A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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Doe Dog Thinking
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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Heart Moving Pain
The 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.
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Air Both Grief Real Thing
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Change May Salvation
Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
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Feet Feminist Girl
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Doe Numbers Revenge
But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.
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Job Mother Running
Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
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Ada Balance Trying
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Appreciate Family Stranger
There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Always Body Fenceline Stories
He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Life Need Rub Soul
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Book Library Rip
Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down.” – Mrs. Brown
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Needs Pull Shepherds Ups
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Life Thing World Wrong
It’s a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can’t begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
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Discipline Funny Things Writing
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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Honesty Needs Truth

…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.

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