It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
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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Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
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I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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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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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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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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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business…I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
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We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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