We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle.
("The Poisonwood Bible")
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Codi Gives you the willies, doesn't it The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop referring to cliff dwellings Loyd No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.Barbara Kingsolver
The effect is both domestic and wild, equal parts geometric and chaotic. It's the visual signature of small, diversified farms that creates the picture-postcard landscape here, along with its celebrated gastronomic one. Couldn't Americans learn to love landscapes like these around our cities, treasuring them not just gastronomically but aesthetically, instead of giving everything over to suburban development? Can we only love agriculture on postcards?
Barbara Kingsolver
Poor Congo, barefoot bride of men who took her jewels and promised the Kingdom.
Barbara Kingsolver
I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.
Barbara Kingsolver
Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
Barbara Kingsolver
For six years, from age nineteen until I turned twenty-five, I did not sleep uninterrupted through a single night. . . . I felt lucky to get my shoes on the right feet. . . . I moved forward only, thinking each morning anew that we were leaving the worst behind.
Barbara Kingsolver
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