Barbara Kingsolver quotes - page 3

I had decided early on that if I couldn't dress elegant, I'd dress memorable. (Barbara Kingsolver)
Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. View quote
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Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me. View quote
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Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer. View quote
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Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals. View quote
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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing. View quote
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Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica. View quote
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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. (Barbara Kingsolver)
What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all. View quote
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This Forest eats itself and lives forever. View quote
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I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension. View quote
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When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven. View quote
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water. View quote
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What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity. View quote
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I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political. View quote
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A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever. View quote
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Maybe he's been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony. View quote
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What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, of why we need to hold on to the wild and beautiful places that once surrounded us. (Barbara Kingsolver)
But I've swallowed my pride before, that's for sure. I'm practically lined with my mistakes on the inside like a bad-wallpapered bathroom. View quote
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The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep. View quote
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A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in their pursuit of eternity they never noticed the chill. View quote
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It is true that I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell. View quote
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