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| fef7c18 | She breathed in slowly; this was what she had, the beauty of this awful night. She listened for small yips in the distance, something to put in her heart besides the lost phoebes and the dread of another full moon rising with no more small celebrations from her body ever again. She kept herself still and tried to think of coyote children emerging from the forest's womb with their eyes wide open while the finite possibilities of her own chil.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 88918e1 | Willa's lifelong service to the duty of proper order now seemed like an idiot's game. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| a9deeb7 | Without shelter, we stand in daylight. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 82e2b73 | I read what Hallie said about not wanting to save the world, that you didn't choose your road for the reward at the end, but for the way it felt as you went along. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 38e2ea6 | This marriage has failed to warm her. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 68f4fee | We try to reason with one another, but only manage to tear ourselves apart. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 90735b7 | When men fear the loss of what they know, they will follow any tyrant who promises to restore the old order." "If that is our nature, then nature is madness. These are more dangerous times than we ever have known." *" | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 180efd6 | To have been made the creatures we are is a marvel. If the process required millennia rather than seven days, how can it be any less sublime? | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| a407e4d | Every education brings a point of reckoning, and this was his: seeing the world divided in two camps, the investigators and the sweeteners | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 6d95969 | How are people so irrational?" he asked, but he knew. Even the abolitionists had no wish to be placed inside creation, subject to its laws. They wished to rule over it from the head of God's table." | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| ab9800a | Our culture is not unacquainted with the idea of food as a spiritually loaded commodity. We're just particular about which spiritual arguments we'll accept as valid for declining certain foods. Generally unacceptable reasons: environmental destruction, energy waste, the poisoning of workers. Acceptable: it's prohibited by a holy text. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 6a2e58e | We only knew, somewhat abstractly, we were going to spend a year integrating our food choices with our family values, which include both "love your neighbor" and "try not to wreck every blooming thing on the planet while you're here." | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 576f629 | Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, i have taught myself joy, over and over again. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| f189b51 | So if it's not this exact prophet of self-indulgence we're looking to for reassurance, it will be some other liar who's good at distracting us from the truth. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| fe70018 | She stops trying to talk for a while, since there is nothing to say about a lost child that can change one star in a father's lonely sky. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| d9d9873 | At his last checkup the pediatrician had observed the howling red face and trembling limbs, and said that infants process grief as trauma. Then suggested they try a different formula. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| be99820 | Imagine if each of these grew to be a maple. There should be no room in Vineland for us to stand between them. It's the same with mice or dandelions. Many more seeds and pups are dropped than may prosper. Otherwise we would be pressed like keepsakes among all the flora and fauna of this planet. Our saving grace, ladies and gentlemen, is what?" He watched mouths move in a silent chorus: Death. "Yes. Our salvation is the reaper. The mouse rea.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| a75becf | being dead seemed a lot like not being born yet, and I hadn't especially minded that. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 44db027 | Don't count on it. There's a lot of white folks out there hanging on to their God-given right to look down on some other class of people | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 577e6da | Really it's just down to a handful of guys piling up everything they can grab and sitting on top of it. And a million poor jerks like Papu still hoping they can get into the club. How long can that last? Five or six more years? | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 578f07e | Mama says their skin bears scars different from ours because their skin is a map of all the sorrows in their lives. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| f2d28af | Waar het om gaat is dat als je het hebt over identiteit, je dat niet zomaar uit mensen kunt wegredeneren. Het verdwijnt niet door de minachting van buitenstaanders, het wordt er juist door verhevigd. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 055add6 | Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 9d836e9 | One percent of the brotherhood has their hands on most of the bread. They own the country, their god is the free market, and most people are so unhorrified they won't even question the system. If it makes a profit, that's the definition of good. If it grows, you have to stand back and let it. The free market has exactly the same morality as a cancer cell. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| bbcaf90 | Corporate growers, if their only motive is profit, will find ways to follow the letter of organic regulations while violating their spirit. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| f8483cc | I am looking for the door to another world. I've waited thousands of years. Take me. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 739a11f | But honestly, XARrizZON! It sounds like strangling. What kind of a name is that?" "It was a president, senora." "Of what? Some place where they don't have any oxygen?" "Of the United States." "As I said." | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 69793ce | He said he could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and people would still vote for him. Am I dreaming this?" Willa asked. "No." "No. He said that. It couldn't have been more than a week ago." "Apparently he was right." "Iano, nobody gets away with murder. You can't behave like a madman when you're running for public office. That kind of trash talk is supposed to end careers." | public-office trash-talk vote | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 2cde4b7 | A mother can be only as happy as her unhappiest child | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| dab140f | Mary and Thatcher had lived in enviable times, when biologists were discovering new species right and left, not watching them go extinct. | species | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| e61a680 | Willa believed in the power of worry to keep another human from flying out of orbit. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 53d77f1 | Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. Almost no one gets a chance to alter the course of human events on purpose, in the exact same way they wish for it to be altered. | clearly destiny events fate fountain human penny wish | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 30f3594 | In my opinion, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you loook down on them from a great height. | great greatness mountains | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| f4c6c2d | Converstations with a mother of five are education in patience. | kids mother patience | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| b5e9cda | When I was in my thirties I had these little square hips left over from being pregnant and I just hated it. I kept thinking, 'All those years before, I had a perfect glamour-girl body, and I didn't spend one minute appreciating it because I thought my nose had a bump in it.' And now that I'm old, my shoulder hurts and I don't sleep good and my knuckles swell up, and I think, 'All those years in my thirties and forties I had a body where eve.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| a74eb16 | Iano ordered her back to Ivins to finish her degree in biology. Willa wondered when he would notice Tig was immune to his directives. Tig informed her parents she refused to take out bank loans, with tuition exchange no longer an option, and anyway she'd already learned more than she wanted to know about a ravaged biosphere. The latter was no news to Willa, who'd seen how the girl always took the truth of human selfishness harder than any o.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| bdf1a5e | A quality diet is not an elitist option for the do-it-yourselfer. Globally speaking, people consume more soft drinks and packaged foods as they grow more affluent; home-cooked meals of fresh ingredients are the mainstay of rural, less affluent people. This link between economic success and nutritional failure has become so widespread, it has a name: the nutrition transition. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| b42e128 | You can't spell unprofessional, unethical, or unaccountable without the UN. | Brad Thor | ||
| 053283c | And a realization for Skinner, she still has his scarf, inside her mountaineering jacket, red wool at her neck. Some meaning there related to the kiss, but in a code he cannot unscramble. A tether is what it feels like, his scarf around her neck, preventing either of them from falling off the mountain alone. | Charlie Huston | ||
| 46a8633 | That's what happens when you get a regular job, other people's shit becomes your problem. 'Course, by the time you got that figured, it's up around your ears and you're just trying to keep your fucking mouth shut. | Charlie Huston | ||
| 8e88aea | I size him up. A pasty jumble of limbs in latex-tight sharkskin slacks with three inches of white socks showing at the ankles above two-tone patent leather, a jacket matching the slacks stretched over narrow shoulders and an embroidered cowboy shirt with silver caps on the points of the collar, a bolo tie featuring a cockroach frozen in amber snug around his throat. | Charlie Huston | ||
| d19a9ef | The general air of insecurity and affection made it too easy for him to imagine these once-a-year fabulous creatures as the cubicle dwellers most of them were in everyday life. | civilization culture mediocrity | charlie huston | |
| 1591faf | Ca oameni, nu facem decat sa ne prezentam. Compunem imaginea pe care vrem s-o vada ceilalti si speram ca ei au s-o citeasca asa cum am scris-o noi. Toata lumea face asta. | Charlie Huston | ||
| f8d3340 | Everything hurts. People are talking in the halls, but no one seems to be evacuating the building. This is the nature of New York City: alarms go off so often that no one wants to respond to them until things start burning down or blowing up in front of their eyes. | Charlie Huston |