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.
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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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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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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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.
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It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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Height isn’t something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.
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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.
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Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.
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The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
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