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I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.

Barbara Kingsolver

Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Driving Honk Jesus Love
Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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Doorways Starting Thinking
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?
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Pet Python Television
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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Foolish Losing Loss
I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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Library Mind Soul
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Anticipation Hope Life
Many of us who aren’t farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
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Past Real Secret
Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Believe Deserve Luck
Maybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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Grows Willing Wonder
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Dresses Expensive Memorable
Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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Intention Peacefulness Purpose
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Change May Salvation
Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Life Lucky Trying
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Balance Injury Success
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Cure First Kill

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