Barbara Kingsolver Quotes about Past

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You don't think you'll live past it and you don't really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that's still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.

You don't think you'll live past it and you don't really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that's still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.

Barbara Kingsolver

Grief, Past, Thinking

Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.

Barbara Kingsolver

Real, Past, Secret

Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.179, Faber & Faber

High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.

Barbara Kingsolver

Fashion, Past, Salad

Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.46, Faber & Faber

Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working the sheep one time? She said it's no good to complain about your flock, because it's the put-together of all your past choices.

Barbara Kingsolver

Mistake, Past, Sheep

Barbara Kingsolver (2012). “Flight Behaviour”, p.308, Faber & Faber