#eve

Bill Bennett really became an idol for me. I listened to him every morning from 6 to 9 for, oh, years. ↗

— Jonathan Krohn

#bennett #bill #every #him #i

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

#almost #every #except #gift #possess

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

#good #maid #sweet #who #will

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

— Charles Kingsley

#course #day #dog #every #lad

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#capacity #else #empathy #every #lost

I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#around #behalf #crosses #every #fearsome

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. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#always #another #brains #carry #else

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#growing #growing up #had #home #just

Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#brave #deeper #embrace #every #every time

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

#even #few #few people #fountain #hope