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Barbara Kingsolver quotes about change

American Novelist April 8, 1955

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But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after - oh, that's love by a different name. She is the babe you hold in your arms for an hour after she's gone to sleep. If you put her down in the crib, she might wake up changed and fly away. So instead you rock my the window, drinking the light from her skin, breathing her exhaled dreams. Your heart bays to the double crescent moons of closed lashes on her... Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed..."
It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known. Barbara Kingsolver
A lifetime of people, unconfirmed by their living presences, or photographs or descriptions in a notebook, can only skulk in the corners like ghosts. They shift like chimeras. Careful words of warning reverse themselves like truth and newspaper stories, becoming their own opposites. An imperfectly remembered life is a useless treachery. Every day, more fragments of the past roll around heavily in the chambers of an empty brain, shedding bits of color, a sentence or a fragrance, something that... Barbara Kingsolver
An imperfectly remembered life is a useless treachery. Every day, more fragments of the past roll around heavily in the chambers of an empty brain, shedding bits of color, a sentence or a fragrance, something that changes and then disappears. It drops like a stone to the bottom of the cave. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my..."
Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life. Barbara Kingsolver
On Sunday morning I put on jeans, changed into a denim dress, then back into jeans again, feeling stupid. I can get into a mood where I annoy myself to no end. At the moment when I got completely fed up and stopped caring, I had on jeans and a white cotton shirt and silver earrings, so that's what I wore. And yes, I'll admit it, nice underwear. Barbara Kingsolver
She has changed in this way that motherhood changes you, so that you forget you ever had time for small things like despising the color pink. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "In my opinion, mountains don't move. They only look changed..."
In my opinion, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from a greaty height. Barbara Kingsolver
My little beast, my eyes, my favorite stolen egg. Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I’ve only found sorrow. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and..."
To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "The changes we dread most may contain our salvation."
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation. Barbara Kingsolver

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