Barbara Kingsolver quotes - page 2

Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up. (Barbara Kingsolver)
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers! View quote
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Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer. View quote
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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. View quote
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Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults? View quote
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That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don't know how a person could ever describe that scent. View quote
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Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down." - Mrs. Brown. View quote
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I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench. View quote
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Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Barbara Kingsolver)
Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed. View quote
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I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written. View quote
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Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice. View quote
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But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run. View quote
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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. View quote
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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes. View quote
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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. View quote
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Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives. View quote
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It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future. View quote
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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. (Barbara Kingsolver)
What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness. View quote
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the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners. View quote
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She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on. View quote
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If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread. View quote
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