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Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver föddes den 8 april 1955
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Av og til er en mors styrke sterkere enn naturkreftene.

Från och till är en mors styrka större än naturkrafternas.

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.

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.

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.

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

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.

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

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.

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. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

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.

It's surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time

Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.

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 circling above the clouds, looking for life, while Hallie was living it.

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.

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