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  1. Barbara Kingsolver _ Animal Dreams

    Converstations with a mother of five are education in patience.
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  2. Barbara Kingsolver _ Animal Dreams

    In my opinion, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you loook down on them from a great height.
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  3. Barbara Kingsolver _ Animal Dreams

    Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. Almost no one gets a chance to alter the course of human events on purpose, in the exact same way they wish for it to be altered.
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  4. Barbara Kingsolver _ Animal Dreams

    Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin.
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  5. Barbara Kingsolver _ Animal Dreams

    I read what Hallie said about not wanting to save the world, that you didn't choose your road for the reward at the end, but for the way it felt as you went along.
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  6. Barbara Kingsolver _ Animal Dreams

    ...because it takes your sleeping self years to catch up to where you really are. Pay attention to your dreams: when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you've come home you'll dream of where you were. It's a kind of jet lag of the consciousness.
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  7. Barbara Kingsolver _ Animal Dreams

    Emelina and I took each other in. All morning I'd felt the strange disjuncture that comes from reconnecting with your past. There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it's like having a stranger as a house guest in your skin.
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  8. Barbara Kingsolver _ Animal Dreams

    Their tail feathers ticked like weeds and one of them crowed nonstop, as if impatient. But impatience implies consciousness of time and a chicken is existential. I know that much about birds.
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  9. Barbara Kingsolver _ Animal Dreams

    The back of my scalp and neck prickled. It's an involuntary muscle contraction that causes that, setting the hair follicles on edge; if we had manes they would bristle exactly like a growling dog's. We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts. There's no sense pretending.
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  10. Barbara Kingsolver _ Animal Dreams

    It ran deeper than that. I'd lost what there was to lose: first my mother and then my baby. Nothing you love will stay. Hallie could call that attitude a crutch, but she didn't know, she hadn't loved and lost so deeply. As Loyd said, she'd never been born-not into life as I knew it. Hallie could still risk everything.
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  11. Barbara Kingsolver _ Animal Dreams

    Awareness is everything. Hallie once pointed out to me that people worry a lot more about the eternity after their deaths than the eternity that happened before they were born. But it's the same amount of infinity, rolling out in all directions from where we stand.
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  12. Barbara Kingsolver _ Animal Dreams

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