So one time when I was working in this motel one of the toilets leaked and I had to replace the flapper ball. Here's what it said on the package; I kept it till I knew it by heart: 'Please Note. Parts are included for all installations, but no installation requires all of the parts.' That's kind of my philosophy about men. I don't think there's an installation out there that could use all my parts.

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That's a tarantula,' he said. 'You got to watch out for them suckers. They can jump four feet. If they get you, you go crazy. It's a special kind of poison'
This I didn't believe. I never could figure out why men thought they could impress a woman by making the world out to be such a big dangerous deal. I mean, we've got to live in the exact same world every damn day of the week, don't we?

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In my opinion, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from a greaty height.

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I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.

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When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine.
Pigs in Heaven

Barbara Kingsolver

Mots clés children

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And all of us with our closed eyes smelled the frangipani blossoms in the big rectangles of open wall, flowers so sweet they conjure up sin or heaven, depending on which way you are headed.

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Most of us are creatures so comforted by habit, it can take something on the order of religion to invoke new, more conscious behaviors--however glad we may be afterward that we went to the trouble.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Looking out on a clean plank of planet earth, we can get shaken right down to the bone by the bronze-eyed possibility of lives that are not our own.

Barbara Kingsolver

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What you hold in your hands right now, beneath these words, is consecrated air and time and sunlight and, first of all, a place.

Barbara Kingsolver

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