Kristin Kimball Quotes

#1. Just a tick past fruition sits decay.

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#2. When we walked the mowed margins of the field in the evenings, a school of black crickets sprang ahead of us like dolphins in front of a ship.

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#3. There's no better cure for snobbiness than a good a** kicking.

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#4. Food, a French man told me once, is the first wealth. Grow it right, and you feel insanely rich, no matter what you own.

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#5. There is no such thing as escape after all, only an exchange of one set of difficulties for another. It wasn't Mark or the farm or marriage I was trying to shake loose from but my own imperfect self, and even if I kept moving, she would dog me all the way around the world, forever.

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#6. My Dad was sad that he saw us working so hard on something that was destined to fail.

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#7. There was something else, too, and I don't know why nobody talks about it. Marriage asks you to let go of a big chunk of who you were before, and that loss must be grieved. A choice for something and someone is a choice against absolutely everything else, and that's one big fat good-bye.

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#8. So there I was eating haute cuisine in a mobile home. He cooked for me as seduction, a courtship, so that I'd never again be impressed with a man who simply took me out to dinner. And I fell in love with him over a deer's liver.

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#9. Cook things, eat them with other people. If you can tire your own bones while growing the beans, so much the better for you.

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#10. It's not the deprivations of winter that get you, or the damp of spring, but the no-man's land between.

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#11. My new life was marking me. It was happening so quickly. There were intermittent spells of resistance, during which I'd pluck and moisturize and exfoliate, and then there was a period of grieving for my old self, who seemed to be disappearing toward the horizon, and then I relaxed into it.

Kristin Kimball