People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
– Barbara Kingsolver
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- And tell them all about the books you’ve read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That’s an order. You can never read too many books. – PB Kerr
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- And read-¦ read all the time-¦ read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life. – David McCullough Jr
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- How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them. – Barbara Kingsolver
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- Read books when you are free, read minds when you are’nt….but do read… – Rabindranath Tagore
- She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die. – Annie Dillard
- It was, in many ways, her dream bookshop. Not least because all the books had already been read.Books that had already been read were the best. – Katarina Bivald
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- To whom do books belong? The books we read and the books we write are both ours and not ours. They’re also theirs. – Pamela Paul
- If the Lord hasn’t got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that’s his business. – Barbara Kingsolver
- Science doesn’t tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is. – Barbara Kingsolver
- There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it’s true, but you haven’t told anyone yet. – Barbara Kingsolver
- When you’re given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven – Barbara Kingsolver
- Mother, you can still hold hold on but forgive, forgive and give for long as long as we both shall live, I forgive you, Mother. – Barbara Kingsolver
- The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows – Barbara Kingsolver
- What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness. – Barbara Kingsolver
- Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly. – Barbara Kingsolver
- Why does a person spend money on a stamp to spout bile at a stranger? – Barbara Kingsolver
- The truth needs so little rehearsal. – Barbara Kingsolver
- Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. – Barbara Kingsolver
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- This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market. – Barbara Kingsolver
- The giant beech next door intends to shiver off every hair of its pelt. – Barbara Kingsolver
- Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise. – Barbara Kingsolver
- She has changed in this way that motherhood changes you, so that you forget you ever had time for small things like despising the color pink. – Barbara Kingsolver
- This will be Great Mam’s last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden. – Barbara Kingsolver
- Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa. – Barbara Kingsolver