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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.
Category: Animal Rights Author: Barbara Kingsolver
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Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn't it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings]
Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
Category: Civilization Author: Barbara Kingsolver
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Codi: "So you think we all just have animal dreams. We can't think of anything to dream except our ordinary lives."
Loyd: "Only if you have an ordinary life. If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life."
Category: Dreams Author: Barbara Kingsolver
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Loyd: "It has to do with keeping things in balance. It's like the spirits have made a deal with us. We're on our own. The spirits have been good enough to let us live here and use the utilities, and we're saying: We know how nice you're being. We appreciate the rain, we appreciate the sun, we appreciate the deer we took. Sorry if we messed up anything. You've gone to a lot of trouble, and we'll try to be good guests."
Codi: "Like a note you'd send somebody after you'd stayed in their house?"
Loyd: "Exactly like that. 'Thanks for letting me sleep on your couch. I took some beer out of the refrigerator, and I broke a coffee cup. Sorry, I hope it wasn't your favorite one.'"
Category: Environment Author: Barbara Kingsolver
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To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
Category: Environment Author: Barbara Kingsolver
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Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves?
Category: Feminism Author: Barbara Kingsolver
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The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
Category: Friendship Author: Barbara Kingsolver
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The truth needs so little rehearsal.
Category: Honesty Author: Barbara Kingsolver
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We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
Category: Humankind Author: Barbara Kingsolver
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
Category: Libraries Author: Barbara Kingsolver
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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.
Category: Life Author: Barbara Kingsolver
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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 then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.
Category: Life Author: Barbara Kingsolver Source: Animal Dreams
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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
Category: Memory Author: Barbara Kingsolver Source: Animal Dreams
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
Category: Memory Author: Barbara Kingsolver Source: Animal Dreams
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
Category: Parenting Author: Barbara Kingsolver Source: Animal Dreams
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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.
Category: Self Discovery Author: Barbara Kingsolver Source: Animal Dreams
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
Category: Self Discovery Author: Barbara Kingsolver Source: Animal Dreams
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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.
Category: War Author: Barbara Kingsolver Source: Animal Dreams
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