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| 30acb1b | Dellarobia noted they were not a perfect physical match: Nelda plump and rosy-cheeked, her mother fine-boned. The resemblance blazed in their wide brown eyes and the way they nodded, the gnomy caps bobbing. Mother-daughter adventurers. She felt a pang of longing, as she often did in church. Everybody had a mother and a God; those were standard issue. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 56ef549 | This book tells the story of what we learned, or didn't; what we ate, or couldn't; and how our family was changed by one year of deliberately eating food produced in the same place where we worked, loved our neighbors, drank the water, and breathed the air. It's not at all necessary to live on a food-producing farm to participate in this culture. But it is necessary to know such farms exist, understand something about what they do, and cons.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| c992390 | What there is in this world I think is a tendency for human errors to level themselves like water throughout there sphere of influence. That's pretty much the whole of what I can say looking back. There is the possibility of balance.Unbearable burden that the world somehow bare with a certain grace. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 734cab9 | Or the quaking misgivings that infected every step forward, after a loss. Even now, dread still struck her down sometimes if she found herself counting on things being fine. Meaning her now-living children and their future, those things. She had so much more to lose now than just herself or her own plans. If Ovid Byron was torn up over butterflies, he should see how it felt to look past a child's baby teeth into this future world he claimed.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 78c9b8a | There is no point in 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. Cynthia | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| e6fe419 | Her every possession was either unbreakable, or broken. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 8769d1c | How does an artist learn enough about life to fill a thimble?" "Soli, I'm going to tell you. He needs to go rub his soul against life. ..." | barbara kingsolver | ||
| d13cb53 | I read as if time were running out, because technically it is. As I grow older I find I'm increasingly impatient with mediocre entertainments; I want books that will take my breath away and realign my vision - Barbara Kingsolver | Pat Williams | ||
| 2e80c76 | As the storm moved closer it broke into hundreds of pieces so that the rain fell here and there from the high clouds in long, curving gray plumes. It looked like maybe fifty or sixty fires scattered over the city, except that the tall, smoky columns were flowing in reverse. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 12dfc6d | She never wore a watch, and for this she didn't need one. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 988fb3e | It's a relief to share the uncomplicated affection that has passed between people and their dogs for thousands of years. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| c5d6179 | But are there books, books there are! Rattling words on the page calling my eyes to dance with them. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 837da53 | Over the phone, her laughter sounded like a warm bath. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| efb6db1 | I loved the time spent with him, but felt in some other chamber of my heart that it was time wasted. That I ought to be doing something else while there was time. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| b510842 | It's also interesting how it's hard to be depressed around a three-year-old, if you're paying attention. After a while, whatever you're mooning about begins to seem like some elaborate adult invention. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 38696c4 | Small change, small wonders--these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life. It's a workable economy. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 8591887 | I knew exactly what I should have said: Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 5f371c5 | She told him television was a bad influence. Probably she was right. Like those white birds he's been seeing outside the window, it flashes its wings and promises whatever you want, even before you knew you wanted it. | tv | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| e7a50bc | He crossed his arms over the chair back and smirked his disapproval at Brother Fowles. "Sir, I offer you my condolences. Personally I've never been troubled by any such difficulties with interpreting God's word." "Indeed, I see that," Brother Fowles said." | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| ff46834 | Cash misses his wife with a blank pain in his chest, and he misses his sisters and cousins, who have known him since he was a strong, good-looking boy. Everyone back there remembers, or if they are too young, they've been told. The old ones get to hang on the sweet, perfect past. Cash was the best at climbing trees; his sister Letty won the story bees. The woman who married Letty's husband's brother, a beauty named Sugar, was spotted one ti.. | leaving-shared-past | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 2c4e7f7 | They saw that even the crooked girl believed her own life was precious. That is what it means to be a beast in the kingdom | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| d592ab0 | You from out of town?" he asked after a while, eying my car. "No," I said. "I go to Kentucky every year to get my license plate." I didn't like his looks." -- | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 547f335 | The jacaranda in the courtyard has put on its bloom. This purple can't be ignored, it's like a tree singing. The walk down Londres Street to the market is a concert: the small jacaranda on the the corner hums the tuning note, then all others in the lane join in. | barbara kingsolver | ||
| ab5a1d0 | Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behavior in children, and medicate it in adults? That's so random. It's like this whole shady setup. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 764fa2c | When people run for their lives they frequently neglect to bring along their file cabinets of evidence," she said. Mattie wasn't often bitter but when she was, she was. I didn't want to believe the world could be so unjust. But of course it was right there in front of my nose." | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 9afd998 | SUNRISE TANTALIZE, evil eyes hypnotize: | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 92e7c73 | Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or at least paused to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| f50c897 | I don't know where to start, Lou Ann," I told her. "There's just so damn much ugliness. Everywhere you look, some big guy kicking some little person when they're down--look what they do to those people at Mattie's. To hell with them, people say, let them die, it was their fault in the first place for being poor or in trouble, or for not being white, or whatever, how dare they try to come to this country." | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 0113ea7 | What I'm saying is nobody feels sorry for anybody anymore, nobody even pretends they do. Not even the President. It's like it's become unpatriotic. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 7e24b60 | You know what really gets me?" I asked him. "How people call you 'illegals.' That just pisses me off, I don't know how you can stand it. A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal?" | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 67e87ce | If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| e44474b | But I'll tell you a secret. 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 without a lot of dubious middle managers. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 4287581 | When I got on the line again the operator was asking for more coins, so I dropped them in. Mama and I listened to the weird bonging song and didn't say anything to each other for a little bit. 'I just lost somebody I was in love with,' I finally told her. 'I just told him goodbye, and I'm never going to see him again. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 5dc1793 | Sex will get you through times with no money better than money will get you through times with no sex. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 0f4bb71 | We may not like thinking about it, but germs crawl eternally over every speck of our planet. Our own bodies are bacterial condos, with established relationships between the upstairs and downstairs neighbors. Without these regular residents, our guts are easily taken over by less congenial newcomers looking for low-rent space. What keeps us healthy is an informed coexistence with microbes, rather than the micro-genocide that seems to be the .. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 7d22715 | It's terrible to lose somebody," I said, "I mean, I don't know firsthand, but I can imagine it must be. But it's also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that's got to be so much worse." | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 461ff0a | Sal Monelli was an unfortunate fellow whose name had struck such terror in her heart she forbade him to touch any food item that wasn't sealed and crated. Lou Ann's life was ruled by the fear of salmonella, to the extent that she claimed the only safe way to eat potato salad was to stick your head in the refrigerator and eat it in there. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 5e419a9 | You can't let your heart go bad like that, like sour milk. There's always a chance you'll want to use it later. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| e8c9207 | Absence of that knowledge has rendered us a nation of wary label-readers, oddly uneasy in our obligate relationship with the things we eat ... Our words for unhealthy contamination--"soiled" or "dirty"--suggest that if we really knew the number-one ingredient of a garden, we'd all head straight into therapy. I used to take my children's friends out to the garden to warm them up to the idea of eating vegetables, but this strategy sometimes b.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 03f30f6 | It is impossible to describe the shock of return. I recall that I stood for the longest time staring at a neatly painted yellow line on a neatly formed cement curb. Yellow yellow line line. I pondered the human industry, the paint, the cement truck and concrete forms, all the resources that had bone into one curb. For what? I could not quite think of an answer. So that no car would park there? Are there so many cars that America must be div.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 2a966f2 | Scientists are not like other people, sir. We cannot slam our portals. We have to follow evidence where it leads, even if no one likes that place. Even if it suggests that all we have ever believed might be mistaken. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| bfed57a | Oh, Rachel, Rachel," Leah said. "Let me give you a teeny little lesson in political science. Democracy and dictatorship are political systems; they have to do with who participates in the leadership. Socialism and capitalism are economic systems. It has to do with who owns the wealth of the nations, and who gets to eat. Can you grasp that?" | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| bba1325 | An animal is the sum of its behaviors, its community dynamics. Not just the physical body. | community-dynamics monarch-butterflies | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 1281d27 | The girl was compulsively honest. In earlier years, Willa's every attempt to teach her the artful evasion known as "tact" would get shot down with "Mom, that's lying!" And Tig remained the child who announced when opening gifts at birthday parties, "Thanks, Grandma, I have one of these already and I don't really like it." | Barbara Kingsolver |