More from Barbara Kingsolver

  1. Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and the…
  2. 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 …
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other…
  6. 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.
  7. The truth needs so little rehearsal.
  8. The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

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