QUOTES by Barbara Kingsolver
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"It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future."
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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."
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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."
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"It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time."
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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."
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"If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business."
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"I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable."
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"Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer."
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"Cooking"Cooking is 80"Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice." percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice." is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice."
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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."
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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..."
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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."
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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."
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"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."
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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."
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"Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life."
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"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."
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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."
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"I lost a child," she said, meeting Lusa's eyes directly. "I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you."
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"Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations."
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"No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill."
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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."
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"To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know."
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"Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives."
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"Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side."
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"Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it."
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"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."
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"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."
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"It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known."
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"If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread."
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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."
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"The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know."
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"Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier."
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"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin."
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"In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can."
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"A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body and soul."
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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."
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"The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes."
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