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Quotes from Animal Dreams — Barbara Kingsolver

born 1955 United States

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Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.

Animal Dreams (1990)

The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here.

Animal Dreams (1990)

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin.

Animal Dreams (1990)

Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.

Animal Dreams (1990)

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

Animal Dreams (1990)

We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

Animal Dreams (1990)

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. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

Animal Dreams (1990)

At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But at another point, much earlier I think, I'd quietly begun to hope for nothing at all in the way of love, so as not to be disappointed. It works. It gets to be a habit.

Animal Dreams (1990)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Barbara Kingsolver (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.