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Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature Picture Quote #1

The wrong words are impossible when there are no words Picture Quote #1

Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used Picture Quote #1

The reason most people have kids is because they get pregnant Picture Quote #1

I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me Picture Quote #1

But children robbed of love will dwell on magic Picture Quote #1

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But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run Picture Quote #1

Terms like that, ‘Humane Society,’ are devised with people like me in mind, who don’t care to dwell on what happens to the innocent Picture Quote #1

If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can Picture Quote #1

I look at my four boys, who are the colors of silt, loam, dust, and clay, an infinite palette for children of their own, and I understand that time erases whiteness altogether Picture Quote #1

There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer Picture Quote #1

Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn’t it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway Picture Quote #1

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To people who think of themselves as God’s houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it Picture Quote #1

To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is! Picture Quote #1

I live in southern Appalachia, so I’m surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It’s particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren’t living nearly as well Picture Quote #1

I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying Picture Quote #1

In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain Picture Quote #1

Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they’re usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there’s a sort of ‘us versus them’ situation. They’re easy to poke fun at Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Morality is not a large, constructed *thing* you have or have not, but simply a capacity. Something you carry with you in your brain and in your hands Picture Quote #1

It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell them is: Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer Picture Quote #1

He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways as if we were both party to relations with a failed outcome. Or say I was afflicted with Africa like a bout of a rare disease from which I have not managed a full recovery Picture Quote #1

When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday Picture Quote #1

Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts Picture Quote #1

There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes) The wrong words are impossible when there are no words (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes) Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes) The reason most people have kids is because they get pregnant (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes) I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes) But children robbed of love will dwell on magic (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes) But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes) Terms like that, ‘Humane Society,’ are devised with people like me in mind, who don’t care to dwell on what happens to the innocent (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes) If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes) I look at my four boys, who are the colors of silt, loam, dust, and clay, an infinite palette for children of their own, and I understand that time erases whiteness altogether (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes) There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes) Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn’t it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes) To people who think of themselves as God’s houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes) To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is! (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes) I live in southern Appalachia, so I’m surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It’s particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren’t living nearly as well (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes) I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes) In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes) Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they’re usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there’s a sort of ‘us versus them’ situation. They’re easy to poke fun at (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes) 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 (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes) Morality is not a large, constructed *thing* you have or have not, but simply a capacity. Something you carry with you in your brain and in your hands (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes) It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell them is: Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes) 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 (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes) Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes) He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes) 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 (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes) Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways as if we were both party to relations with a failed outcome. Or say I was afflicted with Africa like a bout of a rare disease from which I have not managed a full recovery (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes) When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes) Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes) There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes) 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 (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)

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