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"The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities."
"You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness."
"Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child."
"You become a man not when you reach a certain age, but when you reach a certain state of mind."
"Only with time do we really learn who the other person is and come to love the person for him- or herself and not just for the feelings and experiences they give us."
"Sorrow and strife comes to all persons. Mature people expect hardships and setbacks and patiently and determinedly work to accomplish their goals. Immature people lash out in anger and frustration when circumstances conspire to blunt their short-term objectives."
"She knew Neal loved her. Good for him for realizing it wasn't enough to make him happy. That was very mature of him. He was probably saving them both a lot of heartache."
Explore more quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
"Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier."
"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."
"Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up."
"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."
"The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else."
"Terms like that, "Humane Society," are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent."
"Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people's back yards."
"There is no point in treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad...Sadness is more or less like a head cold -- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer."
"But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after - oh, that's love by a different name. She is the babe you hold in your arms for an hour after she's gone to sleep. If you put her down in the crib, she might wake up changed and fly away. So instead you rock by the window, drinking the light from her skin, breathing her exhaled dreams. Your heart bays to the double crescent moons of closed lashes on her cheeks. She's the one you can't put down."
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