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What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.Barbara Kingsolver
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The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.Barbara Kingsolver
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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. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness. Enough to eat, enough to go around. The possibility that kids might one day grow up to be neither the destroyers nor the destroyed. That’s about it. Right now I'm living in that hope, running down its hallway and touching the walls on both sides.Barbara Kingsolver
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There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.Barbara Kingsolver
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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 happened before they were born. But it's the same amount of infinity, rolling out in all directions from where we stand.Barbara Kingsolver
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God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.Barbara Kingsolver
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Those first few weeks are an unearthly season. From the outside you remain so ordinary, no one can tell from looking that you have experienced an earthquake of the soul. You've been torn asunder, invested with an ancient, incomprehensible magic. It's the one thing that we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.Barbara Kingsolver
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I looked hard out the window and understood suddenly that what I saw was full of color. A watercolor wash of summer light lay on the Catalina Mountains. The end of a depression is that clear: it’s as if you have been living underwater, but never realized it until you came up for air.Barbara Kingsolver
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You can’t replace people you love with other people… But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.Barbara Kingsolver
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The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widowsBarbara Kingsolver
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What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.Barbara Kingsolver
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Pay attention to your dreams; when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you've come home you'll dream of where you were. It's a kind of jet lag of the consciousness.Barbara Kingsolver
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A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.Barbara Kingsolver