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| 829d113 | Mr. Nobley had entered the room before he noticed her. He groaned. "And here you are. Miss Erstwhile. You are infuriating and irritating, and yet I find myself looking for you. I would be grateful if you would send me away and make me swear to never return." "You shouldn't have told me that's what you want, Mr. Nobley, because now you're not going to get it." "Then I must stay?" "Unless you want to risk me accusing you of ungentleman-like b.. | Shannon Hale | ||
| b5938d5 | Isn't this Michigan?" She laughed, "Oh oui monsieur, but the French came to Paradis more than cent ans...a hundred years ago." "And they still speak French?" "But we are French." "Aren't you American?" | michigan new-france vivian-lemay | Vivian LeMay | |
| a9034bc | There is suffering ahead of us, immense suffering, a suffering that will continue to tempt us to think that we have chosen the wrong road and that others were more shrewd than we were. But don't be surprised by pain. Be surprised by joy, be surprised by the little Flower that shows its Beauty in the midst of a barren desert, and be surprised by the immense healing power that keeps bursting forth like springs of fresh water from the depth of.. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| a9e79f5 | Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer. --Barbara Kingsolver | Honoree Corder | ||
| 09579d8 | It is widely rumored, and also true, that I wrote my first novel in a closet. | writing | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 0b1cc9e | In her book Animal Dreams, Barbara Kingsolver wrote, "Children robbed of love will dwell on magic." | Irene M. Pepperberg | ||
| 998d679 | TELL ALL THE TRUTH but tell it slant, says my friend Emily Dickinson. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 171c87c | All human odes are essentially one. "My life: what I stole from history, and how I live with it." | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 61d8b10 | The question is, why do you think you can't be a writer? | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 0edd034 | He behaves as if he had no dead children. The real Leandro never comes here. He only pretends. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 791d865 | Tata Jesus is bangala! | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 1163578 | To hear you tell it, you'd think man was only put on this earth to keep urinals from going to waste. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| b64c8a8 | here where we pay soothsayers and acrobats to help lose our weight, | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| eb3286f | Awareness is everything. Hallie once pointed out to me that people worry a lot more about the eternity after their deaths than the eternity that happened before they were born. But it's the same amount of infinity, rolling out in all directions from where we stand. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 7e8720c | It seems like almost anything is better than having only yourself to blame when you screw things up. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| a998b86 | It ran deeper than that. I'd lost what there was to lose: first my mother and then my baby. Nothing you love will stay. Hallie could call that attitude a crutch, but she didn't know, she hadn't loved and lost so deeply. As Loyd said, she'd never been born--not into life as I knew it. Hallie could still risk everything. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 3ac56b3 | Eaters must understand," Wendell Berry writes, "that eating takes place inescapably in the world, that it is inescapably an agricultural act, and that how we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used." | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 374ebf9 | The only useful generalization I'd hazard about rural politics is that they tend to break on the line of "insider" vs. "outsider." When my country neighbors sit down with a new social group, the first question they ask one another is not "What do you do?" but rather, "Who are your people?" | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 77e6493 | From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men. | men sexism women | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 900c170 | Writing, which was both painful and palliative for me, turned out to be my own way of giving blood in a crisis. I can only hope this unit of words will have a longer shelf life than the forty-two days of a unit of blood, as this critical time blends seamlessly into the next one. | timelessness writing | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 72c7525 | His wife was approximately a hundred years younger than him | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| ec92c82 | In our darkest hours we may find comfort in the age-old slogan from the resistance movement, declaring that we shall not be moved. But we need to finish that sentence. Moved from where? Are we anchoring to the best of what we've believed in, throughout our history, or merely to an angry new mode of self-preservation? The American moral high ground can't possibly be an isolated mountaintop from which we refuse to learn anything at all to pro.. | resistance self-preservation | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 71eae4a | Well, Hallelujah and pass the ammunition. Company for dinner! And and eligible bachelor at that, without three wives or even one as far as I know. Anatole, the schoolteacher, is twenty=four eyars of age, with all his fingers still on, both eyes and both feet, and that is the local idea of a top-throb dreamboat. Well, naturally he is not in my color category, but even if I were a Congolese girl I'm afraid I'd have to say thanks but no thanks.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| c62eb1e | Red on! Depends much. So? | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 48869bc | Until that moment I'd always beloved i could still go home and pretend the Congo never happened | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 36c8d04 | What a revelation, that I could carry my own parcel like any woman here! | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| bf98445 | I believe I'm very happy. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| f571a6c | Who else could make the colors of the aurora borealis rise off my skin where he strokes my forearm? Or send needles of ice tinkling blue through my brain when he looks in my eyes? | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 52ae392 | We probably started painting our nails Immoral Coral after everybody sensible had already gone on to pink, but heck, at least we were all behind the times together. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 5e96eb7 | Maybe he's been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony. Well, I put up with him anyway. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 51cf236 | But mother wanted to consume me like food. I needed my won room. I needed books, and for the first time in my life I needed schoolmasters who would tell me each day what to think about. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 5725e3d | There was room in Adah for nought but pure love and pure hate. Such a life is satisfying and deeply uncomplicated. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 8cd5806 | Bears and wolves are our fairy-tale archenemies, and in these tales we teach our children only, and always, to kill them, rather than to tiptoe past and let them sleep. Maybe that's why I'm comforted by the image of a small child curled in the embrace of a mother bear. We need new bear and wolf tales for our times, since so many of our old ones seem to be doing us no good. Now we're finding that it takes our every effort of will and imagina.. | imagination new-stories | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| a77806f | What is new is that we now know so very much about the world, or at least the part of it that is most picturesquely exploding on any given day, that we're left with a desperate sense that all of it is exploding, all the time. | news television-news | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| f7cdba6 | What's with everybody always trying to get rid of the Indians?" I said, not really asking for an answer. I thought again of the history-book pictures. Astronomers and brain surgeons. They should have done brain surgery on Columbus while they had the chance." -- | immigrants indians native-american | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| ee3fd45 | Mother says I never practiced anything but always watched Leah, letting her make the mistakes for both of us, until I was ready to do it myself with acceptable precision. Mother is kind to me, probably because I've stayed nearer at hand than her other children. But I disagree. I made plenty of my own mistakes. I just made them on the inside. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 1870b18 | The back of my scalp and neck prickled. It's an involuntary muscle contraction that causes that, setting the hair follicles on edge; if we had manes they would bristle exactly like a growling dog's. We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts. There's no sense pretending. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 5e86720 | But Mama has this certain voice sometimes. Not exactly sassing back, but just about nearly. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| d9744b9 | On the verbal portion I missed four questions, all having to do with choosing a word in a series that doesn't belong. I have always had trouble with that line of questioning. Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 049c41e | Mother, you had no life of your own. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 45a5dbc | Their tail feathers ticked like weeds and one of them crowed nonstop, as if impatient. But impatience implies consciousness of time and a chicken is existential. I know that much about birds. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 5a9279d | If I eat one more egg omelet I think I"ll turn over easy and cluck." | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| b96125c | Am I the only one getting shocked to smithereens here? | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| e54e57c | I'm just a plain hillbilly from East Jesus Nowhere with this adopted child that everybody keeps on telling me is dumb as a box of rocks. | Barbara Kingsolver |