Barbara Kingsolver Quotes About Expectations

Quotes about: Expectations

• Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Expectations, Balance, Pajamas

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.287, Faber & Faber

• Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus.... Lily hugged each one to her chest before undressing it as gently as a doll. Watching her do that as she sat cross-legged on the floor one morning in pink pajamas, with bliss lighting her cheeks, I thought: Lucky is the world, to receive this grateful child. Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Morning, Children, Food

• I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Book, People, Expectations

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