Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThe moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman’s coal buttons.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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The 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.
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For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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organization is the religion of the single parent.
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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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It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
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If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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