Pigs in Heaven

Barbara Kingsolver

Top 10 Best Quotes

“But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.”

“Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good.”

“No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.”

“The thing is, it's my own fault. I just can't put up with a person that won't go out of his way for me. And that's what a man is. Somebody that won't go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.”

“Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.”

“It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.”

“Sympathizing over the behavior of men is the baking soda of women's friendships, it seems,the thing that makes them bubble and rise.”

“If men only knew, modesty makes women fall in love faster than all the cock-a-doodling in the world.”

“She has changed in this way that motherhood changes you, so that you forget you ever had time for small things like despising the color pink.”

“Do you think its possible to live without wanting to put your name on your paintings? To belong to a group so securely you don't need to rise above it?”

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motherhood, poverty, self-esteem, mother, parenting, depression