Young men Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

““My prior experience with young men was to hear them swear 'Christ almighty in the craphouse!' at any dress with too many buttons.””

Barbara Kingsolver

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Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.

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“In Bobby Ogle's version of heaven everyone would wind up in one place, criminals and Muslims included.”

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“Weeds are job security for the gardener.”

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“It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.”

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“Lusa turned to Crys, her eyes shining. "That was a luna." Crys shrugged. "So?" "So? So what? You want it should sing, too?”

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The strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

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“An imperfectly remembered life is a useless treachery. Every day, more fragments of the past roll around heavily in the chambers of an empty…

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“Somehow it had come to pass that this man was her whole world, and she had failed to take his measure.”

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After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

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