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Only Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
- Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves?
- There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
- Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and…
- Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits; only a cataclysm can make the electrons rear up in shock…
- Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
- Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
- I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they're…
- 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…
- Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure…
- ...trust in Creation which is made fresh daily and doesn’t suffer in translation. This God does not work in especially mysterious ways. The sun here…
- But Anatole said suddenly, 'Don't expect God's protection in places beyond God's dominion. It will only make you feel punished. I'm warning you. When things…
- You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.
- As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I knew the weight was there…
- We aimed for no more than to have dominion over every creature that moved upon the earth. And so it came to pass that we…
- I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed…
- Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.
- Codi: So you think we all just have animal dreams. We can't think of anything to dream except our ordinary lives. Loyd: Only if you…
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