...the houses all seemed a little senile, with arthritc hinges and window screens hanging at embarrassing angles.
Barbara KingsolverShe climbs down and pours half an inch of Jim Beam into a Bengals mug that came free with a tank of gas. Alice would just as soon get her teeth cleaned as watch the Bengals. That's the price of staying around when your heart's not in it, she thinks. You get to be cheerleader for a sport you never chose.
Barbara KingsolverYou just read your books and go on a hundred miles away, You ignore me.
Barbara KingsolverTags: reading books book-adventure
…praise any word that can hold you. Praise all but the vanishing point where we stand now, not quite parted. Already memories fall like blows. But soon they will be treasure, dropped like gold through a miser’s fingers as he makes his accounts…Praise each insomniac hour, kept wide awake by your glow. Sleep would only have robbed more coins from this vandal hoarded store.
Barbara KingsolverEntomologist Dr. Ovid Byron speaking to television journalist, Tina, who says, re: global warming, "Scientists of course are in disagreement about whether this is happening and whether humans have a role."
He replies:
"The Arctic is genuinely collapsing. Scientists used to call these things the canary in the mine. What they say now is, The canary is dead. We are at the top of Niagara Falls, Tina, in a canoe. There is an image for your viewers. We got here by drifting, but we cannot turn around for a lazy paddle back when you finally stop pissing around. We have arrived at the point of an audible roar. Does it strike you as a good time to debate the existence of the falls?
Tags: climate-change-denial climate-crisis monarch-butterflies
Like Daniel she enteres the lions' den, but lacking Daniel's pure and unblemished soul, Ada is spiced with the flavors of vice that make for a tasty meal. Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.
Barbara KingsolverIsn't it crazy? Rich people in the United States don't even know how to use money properly.
Barbara KingsolverTags: wastefulness
Sometimes the past can vanish.
Barbara KingsolverTags: the-past
The longer the sauce cooks, the spicier it gets.
Barbara KingsolverTags: better-with-age
How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?
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