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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 (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 (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
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 (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 (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
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 (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It’s everyone’s, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history... Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
The conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 (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 (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets (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 (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
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 (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
He lifts her breasts, which fit perfectly into his hands, though he knows this is no promise that he gets to keep them. A million things you can’t have will fit in a human hand (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Children can be your heartache. But that doesn’t matter, you have to go on and have them... it works out (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the glittering sand bars to the sea (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal? You just can’t. That’s all there is to it (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was the lifes work of a real person or family, people who built their lives around a promise and watched it break (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)