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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8505b57 | Her kitchen chairs were equipales that took you in like a hug, which I needed. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 93ecca2 | The end was always curled up there between us, like a sleeping cat, present even in our love-making. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 1dba7c8 | Beene-beene.' The truest truth. For my whole sixteen years I've rarely thought I was worth much more than a distracted grumble from God. But now in my shelter of all things impossible, I drift in a warm bath of forgiveness, and it seems pointless to resist. If Anatole can wrap all my rattlebone sins in a blanket and call me goodness itself, why then I'll just believe him. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 98bb60e | I was exhausted but also for the first time in weeks I felt sleepiness, that rare, delicious liqueur, soaking into my body like blotter paper. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| f38d123 | Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behavior in children, and medicate it in adults? That | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 403ff9f | Why do you suppose the poets talk about hearts?' he asked me suddenly. 'When they discuss emotional damage? The tissue of hearts is tough as a shoe. Did you ever sew up a heart? | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 848ca53 | any tinhorn with a loud mouth and a brassy front could gain power by appeal to mob psychology. | Clifford D. Simak | ||
| 32a6a33 | 800 million people are chronically underfed (6 will die of hunger-related causes while you read this article), it's because they lack money and opportunity, not because food is unavailable in their countries. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| e9bc056 | in the first hour of dawn, just as the hem of the sky began to whiten. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 87de8f4 | We will change our ways significantly as a nation not when some laws tell us we have to (remember Prohibition?), but when we want to. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 2333ec8 | Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 8adc3c1 | If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce, we would reduce our country's oil consumption by over 1.1 million barrels of oil every week. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 1da27ec | Children - even when they have endured the unthinkable - have a gift for divining the moment when the grown-ups really need to lighten up. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| ee7f8c2 | We seem to be built with a faulty gauge for moderation. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| b011c11 | I've heard a Buddhist monk suggest the number of food-caused deaths is minimized in steak dinners, which share one death over many meals, whereas the equation is reversed for a bowl of clams. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 7810076 | It seems facile to declare one single forbidden fruit, when humans live under so many different kinds of trees. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| ae2bcdc | But Dovey was one of those people who traveled in a medium-size pod of tardiness on which others came to rely. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| d7596da | Daddy and I got married kind of accidentally. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 2da705f | U.S. policies restrict feeding cow tissue directly to other cows, but still allow cows to be fed to other animals (like chickens) and the waste from the chickens to be fed back to the cows. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| c466dee | Why should it feel so risky to count concretely on a future? | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| cabe636 | colonial American and Australian schoolchildren once memorized poems about British skylarks while the blue jays or cockatoos (according to continent) squawked outside, utterly ignored. The dominant culture has a way of becoming more real than the stuff at hand. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 3a54f05 | 48-point type, a letter size that big-city newspapers probably reserve for special occasions such as Armageddon. Out here in the heartland, we are not waiting that long. Our local paper's stance on the great big headline letters is: You got 'em, you use 'em. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 9b6d379 | We newspaper readers all have our pet vexations. Somewhere in one of those sections is the column we anxiously turn to for the sole purpose of disagreeing with the columnist. Volubly. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| ccd830a | we've learned that some of our favorite things like DDT and the propellants in aerosol cans were rapidly unraveling the structure and substance of our biosphere. We gave them up, and reversed the threats. Now the reforms required of us are more systematic, and nobody seems to want to go first. (To be more precise, the U.S.A. wants to go last.) | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 32f8d5c | I try to be open-minded. And yet this food writer has less sense than God gave a goose about where food comes from. I'd worked on our relationship, moving through the stages of bafflement, denial, and asking this guy out loud, "Where do you live, the moon?" | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| c187fbd | Christmas music fills our ears with tales of a Palestinian miracle birth, a generous Turkish saint whom the Dutch dressed in a red suit, and a Druid ceremonial tree... | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| c034fc2 | less the same in her own home, which she'd had no chance to clean. If neither of these qualified in Hester's mind as valid church-excused emergencies, Dellarobia | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| f4641cc | In our state--no kidding--they are called Standards of Learning, or "SOLs." (I don't think anyone intended the joke.)" | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 36bdcc8 | Everyone wants the tallest tree to fall | barbara kingsolver | ||
| 2456da6 | We will change our ways significantly as a nation not when some laws tell us we have to (remember Prohibition?), but when we want | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 79a6968 | Somehow it had come to pass that this man was her whole world, and she had failed to take his measure. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 9ac0efa | People hang on for dear life to that one, she thought: the fool they are right now. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| a4160fa | said, sounding a little nervous. "Skipping ahead to Everyday Necessities. Try your best to buy reused." | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 2a948f6 | previously chewed meals. Cub held up one labeled "Monster Machines," but she shook her head. "That's not really what Preston" | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 60a3088 | on the weekends. He'd mentioned a place called Sweet Briar where he met other scientists. She felt the trailer's absence | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 4853314 | Here in the eastern woodlands we have the black, common, tulip, and white morels, and one unfortunate little cousin called (I am so sorry) the Dog Pecker. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 63d15d9 | sounding surprised. "That'd make a nice hostess gift." | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 047e09d | Cat, this is America, they let anybody vote. Crooks, wigs, even cookies like us. Dogs and cats, probably. Don't take Fido to the polls, he might cancel you out. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| b108ff0 | Poor thing, thought Garnett, to have to commit yourself so hard to one moment of poor judgment. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| b56c486 | WOMEN ON THEIR OWN RUN in Alice's family. This dawns on her with the unkindness of a heart attack and she sits up in bed to get a closer look at her thoughts, which have collected above her in the dark. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| c4db475 | People had to manage terrible truths. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 30aaa1d | Alabado sea el senor de todas las plagas y secretas aflicciones! Si Dios se divirtio inventando los lirios del campo, seguro que se partio de risa con los parasitos de Africa. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 84a7cc3 | A quick way to improve food-related fuel economy would be to buy a quart of motor oil and drink it. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 4567362 | Picture a single imaginary plant, bearing throughout one season all the different vegetables we harvest...we'll call it a vegetannual. | Barbara Kingsolver |