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Flight Behavior

Barbara Kingsolver

Top 10 Best Quotes

“Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.”

“Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?”

“Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.”

“Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working the sheep one time? She said it's no good to complain about your flock, because it's the put-together of all your past choices.”

“Now, see, that's why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy...the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn't agree with you, all that's left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.”

“They all attended Hester's church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.”

“You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.”

“I never learn anything from listening to myself.”

“...whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. And peace will be with you.”

“The last generations's worst fears become the next one's B-grade entertainment.”

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Book Keywords:

learning, choices, learn, listening-skills, generations, peace, life, delusion, fears, entertainment, mistakes, science, grace

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