Barbara Kingsolver quotes - page 6

There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer. (Barbara Kingsolver)
Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place. View quote
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There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet. View quote
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It's what you do that makes your soul. View quote
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Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good. View quote
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... I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. I crave to be rid of them... View quote
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If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business. View quote
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It's terrible to lose somebody, but it's also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that's got to be so much worse. View quote
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When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke. View quote
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No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins. View quote
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... nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness. (Barbara Kingsolver)
One of the very first things I figured out about life... is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you're hopeful, you have more fun. View quote
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You can curse the dead or pray for them, but don't expect them to do a thing for you. They're far too interested in watching us, to see what in heaven's name we will do next. View quote
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You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own. View quote
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In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could pull up its feet and go bake bread. It didn't occur to them to feel sorry for themselves. View quote
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If you can't dress expensive, dress memorable. View quote
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I also thank Bill McKibben and his 350. org colleagues for the most important work in the world, and the most unending. View quote
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A flock is nothing but the put-together of all your past choices. View quote
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People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around. View quote
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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. View quote
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I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render. (Barbara Kingsolver)
As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant. View quote
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It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else. View quote
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My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file. I always wake with sentences pouring into my head. View quote
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm. View quote
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