#co

Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us. ↗

Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day. ↗

Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#dog #head #imperious #like #minute

Bacon's not the only thing that's cured by hanging from a string. ↗

— Hugh Kingsmill

#cured #hanging #only #string #the only thing

What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#blindness #could #exist #lose #might

Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#answering #back #being #call #child

I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#art #could #fail #good #good art

I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#anything #bluntly #commentary #going #i

I've always thought Mexico City was incredibly dynamic. ↗

— Greg Kinnear

#city #dynamic #i #incredibly #mexico

When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration. ↗