Loose lips sink ships.
Barbara KingsolverIf you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink.
Barbara KingsolverIt's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
Barbara KingsolverTake one trip overland here and you'll know forever that a road in the jungle is a sweet, flat, impossible dream.
Barbara KingsolverWhile we watched without comprehension, she moved away to where none of us wanted to follow. Ruth May shrank back through the narrow passage between this brief fabric of light and all the rest of what there is for us: the long waiting. Now she will wait the rest of the time. It will be exactly as long as the time that passed before she was born.
Barbara KingsolverStichwörter: eternity death light
A novel! Why do you say this won't liberate anyone? Where does any man go to be free, whether he is poor or rich or even in prison? To Dostoyevsky! To Gogol!
Barbara KingsolverThis manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don't consider it rejected. Consider that you've addressed it 'to the editor who can appreciate my work' and it has simply come back stamped 'Not at this address'. Just keep looking for the right address.
Barbara KingsolverStichwörter: writing rejection
People ask without wanting to know.
Barbara KingsolverStichwörter: people life-and-living the-lacuna
If men only knew, modesty makes women fall in love faster than all the cock-a-doodling in the world.
Barbara KingsolverThe thing is, it's my own fault. I just can't put up with a person that won't go out of his way for me. And that's what a man is. Somebody that won't go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.
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