A territory is only possessed for a moment in time.
("The Poisonwood Bible")
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Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways as if we were both party to relations with a failed outcome. Or say I was afflicted with Africa like a bout of a rare disease from which I have not managed a full recovery.Barbara Kingsolver
This Forest eats itself and lives forever.
Barbara Kingsolver
In my opinion, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from a greaty height.
Barbara Kingsolver
Most of the girls my age, or even younger, have babies. They appear way too young to be married, till you look in their eyes. Then you'll see it. Their eyes look happy and sad at the same time, but unexcited by anything, shifting easily off to the side as if they've already seen most of what there is. Married eyes.
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No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill.
Barbara Kingsolver
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.
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