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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

Barbara Kingsolver

Tag: barbara-kingsolver luck the-lacuna lucky-people

Natalya hugged him hard, already torn with remorse over the forces that govern this family. “No, Seva, you won't be allowed to capture it,” she said.
“Your grandfather believes in freedom.

Barbara Kingsolver

No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill.

Barbara Kingsolver

Tag: africa

That would be Axelroot all over, to turn up with an extra wife or two claiming that's how they do it here. Maybe he's been in Africa so long he's forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it's called Monotony.

Barbara Kingsolver

Tag: africa marriage monogamy

A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in their pursuit of eternity they never noticed the chill.

Barbara Kingsolver

The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep.

Barbara Kingsolver

Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place.

Barbara Kingsolver