There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

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There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Fenceline Stories

Bagwalas

This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Mean Moving
I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Knows Pretending
organization is the religion of the single parent.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

organization is the religion of the single parent.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Insuperable Parent Single
In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Long Running
One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Hopeful
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Cure First
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.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
I don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

I don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Expectations
Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Moving
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Found Rocks Swimming
To think is not always to see.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

To think is not always to see.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Visible
Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Sugar Way
School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Order
Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Vegetables
The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Knows Persons
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

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