Eyes can pierce a skull.
Barbara KingsolverHeroes may be less than heroic, while the common man saves the day.
Barbara KingsolverThe clock gulps softly, eating second whole while she waits...
Barbara KingsolverThere are some who'd hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think's been too lucky.
Barbara KingsolverLife proceeds, it enrages.
Barbara KingsolverYou can resign from the Woman's Club, but the world is all, you can't just stop attending.
Barbara KingsolverIf it crosses your mind that water running through hundreds of miles of open ditch in a desert will evaporate and end up full of concentrated salts and muck, then let me just tell you, that kind of negative thinking will never get you elected to public office in the state of Arizona. When this giant new tap turned on, developers drew up plans to roll pink stucco subdivisions across the desert in all directions. The rest of us were supposed to rejoice as the new flow rushed into our pipes, even as the city warned us this water was kind of special. They said it was okay to drink but don't put it in an aquarium because it would kill the fish.
Drink it we did, then, filled our coffee makers too, and mixed our children's juice concentrate with fluid that would gag a guppy. Oh, America the Beautiful, where are our standards?
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She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on.
Barbara KingsolverTags: poignant
God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.
Barbara KingsolverThe essential ingredient of authorship is authority. You hunt it out in a library, you chase it down the street, or you knit it from the fiber of your own will. From somewhere, you get it. You begin
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