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  1. Barbara Kingsolver _ The Bean Trees

    being dead seemed a lot like not being born yet, and I hadn't especially minded that.
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  2. Barbara Kingsolver _ The Bean Trees

    realized that I had come to my own terms with the desert, but my soul was thirsty.
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  3. Barbara Kingsolver _ The Bean Trees

    It's funny how people don't give that much thought to what kids want, as long as they're being quiet.
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  4. Barbara Kingsolver _ The Bean Trees

    As the storm moved closer it broke into hundreds of pieces so that the rain fell here and there from the high clouds in long, curving gray plumes.
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  5. Barbara Kingsolver _ The Bean Trees

    But from here on in I'm your Ma, and that means I love you the most. Forever
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  6. Barbara Kingsolver _ The Bean Trees

    Please Note. Parts are included for all installations, but no installation requires all of the parts.' That's
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  7. Barbara Kingsolver _ The Bean Trees

    They wait out the dry months kind of dead-like, just like everything else, and when the rain comes they wake up and crawl out of the ground and start to holler.
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  8. Barbara Kingsolver _ The Bean Trees

    There seemed to be no end to the things that could be hiding, waiting it out, right where you thought you could see it all."
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  9. Barbara Kingsolver _ The Bean Trees

    Estevan took off his shirt and lay back against the front of the boat, his hands clasped behind his head, exposing his smooth Mayan chest to the sun. And to me. How could he possibly have done this, if he had any idea how I felt? I knew that Estevan had walked a long, hard road beyond innocence, but still he sometimes did the most simple, innocent, heartbreaking things.
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  10. Barbara Kingsolver _ The Bean Trees

    I'm just a plain hillbilly from East Jesus Nowhere with this adopted child that everybody keeps on telling me is dumb as a box of rocks.
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  11. Barbara Kingsolver _ The Bean Trees

    What's with everybody always trying to get rid of the Indians?" I said, not really asking for an answer. I thought again of the history-book pictures. Astronomers and brain surgeons. They should have done brain surgery on Columbus while they had the chance."
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  12. Barbara Kingsolver _ The Bean Trees

    From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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