Quote #16
Life always provides me with better jokes than any I could invent.
More from Barbara Kingsolver
- Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
- Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
- It wasn't a matter of courage or dreams, but something a whole lot simpler. A pilot would call it ground orientation. I'd spent a long time…
- Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
- It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
- 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 th…
- It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
- Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.