32 ordspråk av Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver
 People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around. |
| Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. |
| Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. |
| Terms like that, "Humane Society," are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent. |
| The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else. |
| The truth needs so little rehearsal. |
| The truth needs so little rehearsal. |
| The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. |
| The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. |
| There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature. |
| Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up. |
| Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up. |
| We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts. |
| What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive. |
| What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive. |
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