[b]Barbara Kingsolver
But Anatole said suddenly, Don’t expect God’s protection in places beyond God’s dominion. It will only make you feel punished. I’m warning you. When things go bad, you will blame yourself.
What are you telling me?
I am telling you what I’m telling you. Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you are good, bad things can still happen. And if you are bad, you can still be lucky. [/b]
What actually is beyond God’s dominion?
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
Has there ever been even one exception?
Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down.
And then, after dinner, pick up the tab.
Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
Like there aren’t times we have no choice.
…you can’t really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece…
She means lots and lots of them of course.
One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.
Point taken though.