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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2ed9763 | If a shipment of ground beef somehow gets contaminated with pathogens, our federal government does not have authority to recall the beef, only to request that the company issue a recall. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 0731161 | I certainly sense a bit of that when urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, "so far from everything?" (When I hear this question over the phone, I'm usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.)" | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| a16f86e | Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot. | perspective | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| d3d666c | Emelina set a cup of tea in front of me. I picked it up and let the steam touch my eyelids, realizing that what I needed most at that moment was to lie in bed with someone who was fond of every inch of my skin. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 002869e | She wondered if humiliation ever ran its natural course and peeled off, like a sunburn, or just kept blazing. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| a42c9b3 | The giant beech next door intends to shiver off every hair of its pelt. | historical-fiction kingsolver lacuna méxico | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| e283660 | I became determined to know a few steps more of that path every day. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| c3b14d7 | There's people I love. But there's so many other kinds of love, too. And people act so hateful to every kind but their own. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 68070bf | He noticed the children less and less. He was hardly a father except in the vocational sense, as a potter with clay to be molded. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 5bc198f | Solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new for the chosen. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 0e1442e | the most remarkable feature of human culture is its capacity to reach beyond the self and encompass the collective good; yet, | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 11b937e | why, he very nearly almost looked handsome. If you could ignore the telltale signs that he is a certified creep. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 61b9c00 | I feared not, and grew accustomed to walking alone. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 919a542 | Corn syrup and added fats have been outed as major ingredients in fast food, but they hide out in packaged foods too, even presumed-innocent ones like crackers. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 2cb0cd5 | My firstborn and my baby both tried to shed me like a husk from the start, and the twins came with a fine interior sight with which they could simply look past me at everything more interesting. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 4307136 | I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 6e8a15d | The tunnel of winter had settled over our lives, ushered in by that great official Hoodwink, the end of daylight saving time. Personally I would vote for one more hour of light on winter evenings instead of the sudden, extra-early blackout. Whose idea was it to jilt us this way, leaving us in cold November with our unsaved remnants of daylight petering out before the workday ends? In my childhood, as early as that, I remember observing the .. | life winter | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| fb66e2b | The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by the EPA as carcinogenic in humans. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 46215f4 | This I need to be told?" she'd snapped. As if, sitting in this kitchen where she felt the disapproving presence of his dead mother, she could forget where he'd grown up. Cole was the youngest of six children, with five sisters who'd traveled no farther than the bottom of the hollow, where Dad Widener had deeded each daughter an acre on which to build a house when she married, meanwhile saving back the remainder of the sixty-acre farm for hi.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 56f7366 | But it's also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that's got to be so much worse." After" | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 496a0f1 | 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 | ||
| 081963d | On the day of the hunt I came to know in the slick center of my bones this one thing: all animals kill to survive, and we are animals. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 03b26d3 | You feel like you'll never run into another one that's worth turning your head around for, but you will. You'll see." "No," | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 3e870cc | pagne | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 255ba8b | fact our shoes filled with mud and our clothes turned to slime, and it was the farthest thing from pleasant. Mosquitoes that had lain dormant through the long drought now hatched and rose from the forest floor in clouds so thick they filled our mouths and nostrils. I learned to draw back my lips and breathe slowly through my teeth, so I wouldn't choke on mosquitoes. When they'd covered our hands and faces with red welts they flew up our sle.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 8f0cfe5 | nothing wondrous can come in this world unless it rests on the shoulders of kindness. He | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| b4e11e2 | admired their own steadfast lives. Right up to the day when hope in all its versions went out of stock, | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 19433e9 | some secrets kept themselves, out of a failure to stand up to the competing rumors. She | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 92df92b | recreational envy was | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 7d042d6 | It was a rule of marriage: the more desperately you needed alone time with your spouse, the quicker you'd spoil it with a blowout. When | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 8cc8b1f | Pushing a refrigerated green vegetable from one end of the earth to another is, let's face it, a bizarre use of fuel. But there's a simpler reason to pass up off-season asparagus: it's inferior. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 273254a | Wardrobe of Denial. Blanchie glanced | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 26e4425 | Damned thing, self-consciousness, like a pitiful stray dog tagging you down the road--so hard to shake off. So easy to get back. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 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 |