Barbara Kingsolver Quotes - Page 10

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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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  Children, Eye, Bereavement

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “Prodigal Summer”, p.63, Faber & Faber

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• Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Every choice is a world made new for the chosen.

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  Choices, Solitude, World

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “Prodigal Summer”, p.353, Faber & Faber

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• Our plans are small and somewhat absurd.

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  Absurd, Plans

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.50, Faber & Faber

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• Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.

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  Wise, Odds, Smoking

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• Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.

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  Should

  Barbara Kingsolver (2012). “Flight Behaviour”, p.258, Faber & Faber

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• That's how it is: some people are content to wait till you ask, while others jump right in with the whole story.

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  People, Waiting, Stories

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• Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.

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  Children, Seven, Minutes

  "Animal Dreams". Book by Barbara Kingsolver, 1990.

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• This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.

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  Moving, Heart, Mean

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• My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.

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  Writing, World, Way

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.281, Faber & Faber

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• it takes your sleeping self years to catch up to where you really are. ... when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you've come home you'll dream of where you were. It's a kind of jet lag of the consciousness.

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  Dream, Home, Sleep

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “Animal Dreams: A Novel”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• Scientific illiteracy in our populations is leaving too many of us unprepared to discuss or understand much of the damage we are wreaking on our atmosphere, our habitat, and even the food that enters our mouths.

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  Science, Leaving, Atmosphere

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.116, Faber & Faber

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• Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.

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  Family, Frustrating, Code

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• it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.

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  Fear, Walks, Beside You

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• It is completely usual for me to get up in the morning, take a look around, and laugh out loud.

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  Morning, Laughing, Usual

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• organization is the religion of the single parent.

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  Organization, Parent, Single Parent

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• Parenting is something that happens mostly while you're thinking of something else.

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  Thinking, Happens

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Homeland”, p.55, Faber & Faber

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• Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on your point of view.

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  Men, Thinking, Views

  Barbara KingSolver (1988). “The Bean Trees: A Novel”, Harpercollins

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• If it's important, your heart remembers.

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  Heart, Important, Remember

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Homeland”, p.7, Faber & Faber

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• For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.

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  Life, Threatening, Enterprise

  Barbara KingSolver (1988). “The Bean Trees: A Novel”, Harpercollins

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• I can think of no honorable answer. Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste, while others deliberate between damp dirt and bone dust to quiet the fire of an empty stomach lining? There is nothing about the United States I can really explain to this child of another world.

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  Children, Thinking, Dust

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.367, Faber & Faber

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• The things I carry closest to my heart are things I can't own.

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  Heart, My Heart, Closest

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• Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.

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  Father, Rain, Garden

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.60, Faber & Faber

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• Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working the sheep one time? She said it's no good to complain about your flock, because it's the put-together of all your past choices.

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  Mistake, Past, Sheep

  Barbara Kingsolver (2012). “Flight Behaviour”, p.308, Faber & Faber

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• There are always more questions. Science as a process is never complete. It is not a foot race, with a finish line.... People will always be waiting at a particular finish line: journalists with their cameras, impatient crowds eager to call the race, astounded to see the scientists approach, pass the mark, and keep running. It's a common misunderstanding, he said. They conclude there was no race. As long as we won't commit to knowing everything, the presumption is we know nothing.

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  Running, Race, Knowing Everything

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• You know what the issue is? Do you want to know? It's what these guys have decided to call America. They have the audacity to say, 'There, you sons of bitches, don't lay a finger on it. That is a finished product.'" "But any country is still in the making. Always. That's just history, people have to see that.

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  Country, Son, America

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