"It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't." - Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams write comments | rate this quote "It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. " - Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams write comments | rate this quote "It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't." - Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams write comments | rate this quote "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." - Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams write comments | rate this quote "Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn't it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop?" - Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams write comments | rate this quote "There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature." - Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams write comments | rate this quote "Codi: "So you think we all just have animal dreams." - Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams write comments | rate this quote "It has to do with keeping things in balance. It's like the spirits have made a deal with us. We're on our own." - Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams write comments | rate this quote "To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it." - Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams write comments | rate this quote "The truth needs so little rehearsal." - Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams write comments | rate this quote "We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts." - Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams write comments | rate this quote "Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off." - Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams write comments | rate this quote "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." - Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams write comments | rate this quote "Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it." - Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams write comments | rate this quote "It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time." - Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams write comments | rate this quote "Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin." - Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams write comments | rate this quote "It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. " - Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams write comments | rate this quote "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." - Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams write comments | rate this quote "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." - Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams write comments | rate this quote "Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier. " - Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams write comments | rate this quote