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Barbara Kingsolver quotes

American Novelist April 8, 1955

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Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "A flower is a plant's way of making love."
A flower is a plant's way of making love. Barbara Kingsolver
I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render. Barbara Kingsolver
Yet I stake a claim, I am here, for I must be somewhere. But only as a child it seems, struggling to understand what every wife and gentleman passing on the street seems to know by rote. Whom to love, whom to castigate. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "Peace and Love, get high and fly with the dove."
Peace and Love, get high and fly with the dove. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn..."
I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own."
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own. Barbara Kingsolver
This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of..."
You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "But children robbed of love will dwell on magic."
But children robbed of love will dwell on magic. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "Love weighs nothing."
Love weighs nothing. Barbara Kingsolver
As I looked at her there among the pumpkins I was overcome with the color and the intesity of my life. In these moments we are driven to try and hoard happiness by taking photographs, but I know better. The improtant thing was what the colors stood for, the taste of hard apples and the existence of Lena and the exact quality of the sun on the last warm day in October. A photograph would have flattened the scene into a happy moment, whereas what I felt was rapture. The fleeting certainty that... Barbara Kingsolver
Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was the lifes work of a real person or family, people who built their lives around a promise and watched it break. Barbara Kingsolver
When we traded homemaking for careers, we were implicitly promised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bargain it has turned out to be in terms of daily life. We gave up the aroma of warm bread rising, the measured pace of nurturing routines, the creative task of molding our families' tastes and zest for life; we received in exchange the minivan and the Lunchable. Barbara Kingsolver
Every one of us is called upon, perhaps many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a job...And onward full-tilt we go, pitched and wrecked and absurdly resolute, driven in spite of everything to make good on a new shore. To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct...Crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is. Barbara Kingsolver

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