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Barbara Kingsolver quotes: In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can. In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: One way of surviving heartache is to stay busy. Making something right in at least one tiny corner of the vast house of wrongs... One way of surviving heartache is to stay busy. Making something right in at least one tiny corner of the vast house of wrongs...
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: I'm too fascinated to hide indoors or stay cooped up in our yard. Curiosity killed the cat, I know, but I try to land on my feet. I'm too fascinated to hide indoors or stay cooped up in our yard. Curiosity killed the cat, I know, but I try to land on my feet.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: From what he could see she had the legs of a much younger woman. Certainly not what he would have expected in the way of Unitarian legs. From what he could see she had the legs of a much younger woman. Certainly not what he would have expected in the way of Unitarian legs.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: They say you thatched your roof and now you must not run out of your house if it rains. They say you thatched your roof and now you must not run out of your house if it rains.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: When men want to kiss you they act like they are just on the brink of doing something that's going to change the whole wide world. When men want to kiss you they act like they are just on the brink of doing something that's going to change the whole wide world.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: Sympathizing over the behavior of men is the baking soda of women's friendships, it seems,the thing that makes them bubble and rise. Sympathizing over the behavior of men is the baking soda of women's friendships, it seems,the thing that makes them bubble and rise.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: In our state - no kidding - they are called Standards of Learning, or "SOLs." (I don't think anyone intended the joke.) In our state - no kidding - they are called Standards of Learning, or "SOLs." (I don't think anyone intended the joke.)
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: Even the bells from the churches have a conversation, all ringing at once. Even the bells from the churches have a conversation, all ringing at once.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: My future was mapped in negatives. Next year, I could be anywhere but here. My future was mapped in negatives. Next year, I could be anywhere but here.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer. It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke. When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life. He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: Over the phone, her laughter sounded like a warm bath. Over the phone, her laughter sounded like a warm bath.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: Everyone wants the tallest tree to fall Everyone wants the tallest tree to fall
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: Priests were illegal, saying the mass was illegal, all banned by the Revolution. Priests were illegal, saying the mass was illegal, all banned by the Revolution.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: 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. 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.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: Some of life's greatest calls were answered not by the head but by the body. Some of life's greatest calls were answered not by the head but by the body.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: What keeps you going isn't just some fine destination but the road you're on and the fact you know how to drive. What keeps you going isn't just some fine destination but the road you're on and the fact you know how to drive.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: We cannot jump to conclusions. All we can do is measure and count. That is the task of science. We cannot jump to conclusions. All we can do is measure and count. That is the task of science.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: 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. 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.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: It's monstrous, what one person will do to another. It's monstrous, what one person will do to another.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: Take one trip overland here and you'll know forever that a road in the jungle is a sweet, flat, impossible dream. Take one trip overland here and you'll know forever that a road in the jungle is a sweet, flat, impossible dream.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet. There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: 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. 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.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: Parenting is something that happens mostly while you're thinking of something else. Parenting is something that happens mostly while you're thinking of something else.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: Or the quaking misgivings that infected every step forward, after a loss. Or the quaking misgivings that infected every step forward, after a loss.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: Move on. Walk forward into the light. Move on. Walk forward into the light.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: The past is all we know of the future. The past is all we know of the future.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: If you look hard enough you can always see reasons, but you'll go crazy if you think it's all punishment for your sins. If you look hard enough you can always see reasons, but you'll go crazy if you think it's all punishment for your sins.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: After a while Estevan said, What I really hate is not belonging in any place. To be unwanted everywhere. After a while Estevan said, What I really hate is not belonging in any place. To be unwanted everywhere.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: It's just lucky for Father he never had any sons. He might have been forced to respect them. It's just lucky for Father he never had any sons. He might have been forced to respect them.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: God doesn't need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves. God doesn't need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story. No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper. Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: She wondered if humiliation ever ran its natural course and peeled off, like a sunburn, or just kept blazing. She wondered if humiliation ever ran its natural course and peeled off, like a sunburn, or just kept blazing.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: Bobby Bingo had skin like a baked potato. A complete vegetable man, Lou Ann thought, Bobby Bingo had skin like a baked potato. A complete vegetable man, Lou Ann thought,
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine.
Pigs in Heaven
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: Modern people are just like ancient ones, only more numerous. Modern people are just like ancient ones, only more numerous.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: In my opinion, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from a greaty height. In my opinion, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from a greaty height.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: She's never forgotten, either, how a mystery caught in the hand could lose its grace She's never forgotten, either, how a mystery caught in the hand could lose its grace
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them. Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: He behaves as if he had no dead children. The real Leandro never comes here. He only pretends. He behaves as if he had no dead children. The real Leandro never comes here. He only pretends.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread. If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: To think is not always to see. To think is not always to see.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: 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 ... 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 ...
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: I don't *ever* write about real people. Art is supposed to be better than that. If you want a slice of life, look out the window. I don't *ever* write about real people. Art is supposed to be better than that. If you want a slice of life, look out the window.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: I had decided early on that if I couldn't dress elegant, I'd dress memorable. I had decided early on that if I couldn't dress elegant, I'd dress memorable.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: This is what it means to be very slow: every story you would like to tell has already ended before you can open your mouth. This is what it means to be very slow: every story you would like to tell has already ended before you can open your mouth.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me. I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: It's a selfish habit. I never learn anything from listening to myself. It's a selfish habit. I never learn anything from listening to myself.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: There are days when I am envious of my hens:when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sureas a single daily egg. There are days when I am envious of my hens:
when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure
as a single daily egg.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: Downstream is always someone else's up. Downstream is always someone else's up.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: No, you shouldn't have come here. But you are here, so yes, you should be here. There are more words in the world then yes and no. No, you shouldn't have come here. But you are here, so yes, you should be here. There are more words in the world then yes and no.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: Poor thing, thought Garnett, to have to commit yourself so hard to one moment of poor judgment. Poor thing, thought Garnett, to have to commit yourself so hard to one moment of poor judgment.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: A woman without a man a condition of 'manlessness' is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife. A woman without a man
a condition of 'manlessness'
is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage. The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: Sometimes that happens. Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them," she said. "It works out. Sometimes that happens. Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them," she said. "It works out.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: In almost thirty years of walking around on the grass of the world, she couldn't recall having spent two minutes alone with a butterfly. In almost thirty years of walking around on the grass of the world, she couldn't recall having spent two minutes alone with a butterfly.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: I almost never respect men. They're like flowers all show, a lot of color and lust. You pick them and throw them on the ground. I almost never respect men. They're like flowers
all show, a lot of color and lust. You pick them and throw them on the ground.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are. It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: Nothing wondrous can come in this world unless it rests on the shoulders of kindness. He Nothing wondrous can come in this world unless it rests on the shoulders of kindness. He
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill. The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: 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. 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.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in their pursuit of eternity they never noticed the chill. A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in their pursuit of eternity they never noticed the chill.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning. Hope is a renewable option:
If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: My thoughts kept straying onto random paths ... hoping to get lost in a thicket. My thoughts kept straying onto random paths ... hoping to get lost in a thicket.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: That means you're my kid," I explained, "and I'm your mother, and nobody can say it isn't so. That means you're my kid," I explained, "and I'm your mother, and nobody can say it isn't so.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: It is completely usual for me to get up in the morning, take a look around, and laugh out loud. It is completely usual for me to get up in the morning, take a look around, and laugh out loud.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: If it's important, your heart remembers. If it's important, your heart remembers.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: On the weekends. He'd mentioned a place called Sweet Briar where he met other scientists. She felt the trailer's absence On the weekends. He'd mentioned a place called Sweet Briar where he met other scientists. She felt the trailer's absence
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book. I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best. The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: The sting of a fly, the Congolese say, can launch the end of the world. How simply things begin. The sting of a fly, the Congolese say, can launch the end of the world. How simply things begin.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: Arterial-plaque specials that save minutes now can cost years, later on. Arterial-plaque specials that save minutes now can cost years, later on.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science. I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: You could allow a gentleman the privacy of his piss. You could allow a gentleman the privacy of his piss.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder. A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers! Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: Imagine a ruin so strange it must never have happened. Imagine a ruin so strange it must never have happened.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known. It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on. She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: So she was what Hester called a 911 Christian: in the event of an emergency, call the Lord. So she was what Hester called a 911 Christian: in the event of an emergency, call the Lord.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is. Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: King Billy nectaring on the harbinger. King Billy nectaring on the harbinger.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: The first sentence of a book is a promise. The first sentence of a book is a promise.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on your point of view. Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on your point of view.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: We will change our ways significantly as a nation not when some laws tell us we have to (remember Prohibition?), but when we want to. We will change our ways significantly as a nation not when some laws tell us we have to (remember Prohibition?), but when we want to.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: Daddy and I got married kind of accidentally. Daddy and I got married kind of accidentally.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: The clock gulps softly, eating second whole while she waits ... The clock gulps softly, eating second whole while she waits ...
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: I don't know," Magda says, "Seems like that's just how it is with you and me. We're like islands on the moon. I don't know," Magda says, "Seems like that's just how it is with you and me. We're like islands on the moon.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life. If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: I'd forgotten how trees full of bird sounds made you sense the world differently: that life didn't just stop at eye level. I'd forgotten how trees full of bird sounds made you sense the world differently: that life didn't just stop at eye level.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: So Noah cursed all Ham's children to be slaves forever and ever. That's how come them to turn out dark So Noah cursed all Ham's children to be slaves forever and ever. That's how come them to turn out dark
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink. If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: There are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a dog of having a bark! There are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a dog of having a bark!
Barbara Kingsolver quotes: School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind. School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.

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