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Barbara Kingsolver
American
Novelist
About the author
What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
Barbara Kingsolver,
American
Novelist
#Road
#Fact
What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
Barbara Kingsolver,
American
Novelist
#Space
#Blindness
I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
Barbara Kingsolver,
American
Novelist
#Living
#Mind
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
Barbara Kingsolver,
American
Novelist
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
Barbara Kingsolver,
American
Novelist
#American
#Libraries
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
Barbara Kingsolver,
American
Novelist
#Truth
#Memory
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
Barbara Kingsolver,
American
Novelist
#Heart
#Truth
#Pain
People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
Barbara Kingsolver,
American
Novelist
#People
#Will
#Day
#Dreams
#Soul
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
Barbara Kingsolver,
American
Novelist
#Strength
#Laws
#Motherhood
Terms like that, "Humane Society," are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
Barbara Kingsolver,
American
Novelist
#People
#Society
#Mind
#Care
The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
Barbara Kingsolver,
American
Novelist
#Life
#Ability
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
Barbara Kingsolver,
American
Novelist
#Needs
#Truth
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.
Barbara Kingsolver,
American
Novelist
#Life
#Hope
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
Barbara Kingsolver,
American
Novelist
#Work
#Elections
We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
Barbara Kingsolver,
American
Novelist
#Thoughts
#Animals
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
Barbara Kingsolver,
American
Novelist
#Want
#Hope
#People
It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
Barbara Kingsolver,
American
Novelist
#Time
#Memory