restraint equals indulgence
Barbara KingsolverMemory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
Barbara KingsolverClose the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.
Barbara KingsolverBut still, I’d be darned if I was going to be one of those Americans who stomp around Italy barking commands in ever-louder English. I was going to be one of those Americans who traversed Italy with my forehead knit in concentration, divining wordsw from their Latin roots and answering by wedging French cognates into Italian pronunciations spliced onto a standard Spanish verb conjugation.
Barbara KingsolverCooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
Barbara KingsolverIt's what you do that makes your soul.
Barbara KingsolverLove weighs nothing.
Barbara KingsolverIt's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
Barbara Kingsolver...trust in Creation which is made fresh daily and doesn’t suffer in translation. This God does not work in especially mysterious ways. The sun here rises and sets at six exactly. A caterpillar becomes a butterfly. A bird raises its brood in the forest and a greenheart tree will only grow from a greenheart seed. He brings drought sometimes followed by torrential rains and if these things aren’t always what I had in mind, they aren’t my punishment either. They’re rewards, let’s say for the patience of a seed.
Barbara KingsolverBut I've swallowed my pride before, that's for sure. I'm practically lined with my mistakes on the inside like a bad-wallpapered bathroom.
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