organization is the religion of the single parent.
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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When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.
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Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.
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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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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.
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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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Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It’s more like conversation, raising new questions and inspiring you to answer them for yourself.
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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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Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
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