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Before Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
- Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the trashcan…
- The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard things before. And…
- My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of…
- You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend,…
- Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the…
- But I've swallowed my pride before, that's for sure. I'm practically lined with my mistakes on the inside like a bad-wallpapered bathroom.
- The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings,…
- you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece
- Awareness is everything. Hallie once pointed out to me that people worry a lot more about the eternity *after* their deaths than the eternity that…
- Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus.... Lily hugged each one…
- You force people to stop asking questions, and before you know it they have auctioned off the question mark, or sold it for scrap. No…
- Planning complex, beautiful meals and investing one's heart and time in their preparation is the opposite of self-indulgence. Kitchen-based family gatherings are process-oriented, cooperative, and…
- You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
More Before Quotes
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is… — Richard Bach
- I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was… — Bella Abzug
- Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.'… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot… — Rowan Atkinson