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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6dc11b0 | Colonial ransacking in the scientific age." (page 396, Lacuna) | Kingsolver Barbara | ||
| 6e0cae6 | Freedom of the presses to destroy a person's life for no good reason." (Lacuna, p. 419)" | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| a148334 | As some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring.' | Acts of the Apostles | ||
| 1a404e3 | All revolutions destroy defining structures of a previous era. The information revolution was no different. The limitations imposed by distance and geography were fundamental to the social, economic, and political structure of the nation-state. In 1995 Frances Cairncross, senior editor of the Economist, pointed out that information technology destroys distance, insamuch as distance serves as a barrier to communication.15 Decades earlier, sc.. | Benjamin Schwartz | ||
| 86d304b | Ik hou van de spannende periode van afwachten, van de geestelijke en fysieke sensatie van bochten als iets geheimzinnigs naar de oppervlakte van het bewustzijn zigzagt. | Frances Mayes | ||
| adce7d6 | Wat een merkwaardige kronkel om het echte te bedekken met een nabootsing van iets echts | Frances Mayes | ||
| cfdc484 | The Germans had a family of three main battle tanks. The Mark IV, which received its first real combat test in May 1940, weighed twenty-seven tons, had somewhat less armor than the Sherman, about the same maximum road speed, and a tank gun comparable in weight of projectile and muzzle velocity to the 76-mm. American tank gun but superior to the short-barreled 75-mm. The Panther, Mark V, had proved itself during 1944 but still was subject to.. | Hugh M. Cole | ||
| 3058179 | Children who need movement may benefit from standing up to do their lessons; children who need pressure may benefit from squeezing or lifting heavy objects; children who are sensitive to sounds may need to be protected from noisy environments; and, children who become overwhelmed may need to learn deep breathing. | Frances Collette | ||
| 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 | |
| c8e88a8 | No matter what affronts of youthful insolence he had to face in his day, he'd still have that: he was a man taken care of by a woman. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 307b5bd | After I have been [to Jerusalem]," [Paul] said, "I must visit Rome also." | Acts of the Apostles | ||
| ff59687 | Plus," Tig said, "it reminds me to be patient. Seeing all these people that have passed on. I get frustrated sometimes, waiting.""For people to die?""Yeah. To be honest. The guys in charge of everything right now are so old. They really are, Mom. Older than you. They figured out the meaning of life in, I guess, the nineteen fifties and sixties. When it looked like there would always be plenty of everything. And they're applying that to now... | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| fce75f3 | Even this far inland, New Jersey was still recovering from Hurricane Sandy, which in its time, a few years back, had been called the storm of the century. How foolish it seemed now to label anything "of the century." This one was still a teenager with an anger-management problem and a long future ahead." | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| a004e1b | shambles in her sternum. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 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 | ||
| 99ea266 | bare wood of her son beneath the bark | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 8b70f4f | dandling | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| b9f6c4f | brain salts | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 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 |