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I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Comprehension
Ridiculous
Beyond
Thought
Life

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There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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This Forest eats itself and lives forever.
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It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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