Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Here comes Moses tromping down off Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Here, bodily damage is more or less considered to be a by-product of living, not a disgrace.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Something in me was always watching life from the outside, permanently obsessed with the notion of belonging vs. not-belonging [to a group].… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“A life was a life. She'd been orphaned at an age to internalize death as poor material for a joke. And likewise,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
A flower is your cousin...Sometimes a person has got to take a life, like a chicken's or a hog's when you need… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Cub retreated to the familiar grounds of remorse and insufficiency, the terms of his existence, ratified by marriage.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“We gave up the aroma of warm bread rising, the measured pace of nurturing routines, the creative task of molding our families’… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise, ultimately defiant act of… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. I can understand… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I've survived anger only one minute at a time, by saying to myself again and again that the best kind of… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“She is not a bulldog, only a woman pressed into the shape of a small jar, possibly attempting to dance in there.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
If I had to give up my life for anything, it would have to have the resilience of hope, the elation of… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“mountains. They stand at every view, like a mother offering a blanket in which to wrap everyday life and shelter it from… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“An imperfectly remembered life is a useless treachery. Every day, more fragments of the past roll around heavily in the chambers of… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“But a Congolese life is like the useless Congolese bill, which you can pile by the fistful or the bucketful into a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“As I looked at her there among the pumpkins I was overcome with the color and the intesity of my life. In… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“A novel works it's magic by putting a reader inside another person's life. The pace is as slow as life. It's as… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“The difference is an objective phenomenon of soil science; what we call "soil" is a community of living, mostly microscopic organisms in… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“You're asking yourself, Can I give this child the best possible upbringing and keep her out of harm's way her whole life… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“On the day of the hunt I came to know in the slick center of my bones this one thing: all animals… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Many bright people are really in the dark about vegetable life. Biology teachers face kids in classrooms who may not even believe… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Every one of us is called upon, perhaps many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Listen: being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for! — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Jesus was a more reliable backer, evidently, less likely to drink himself unconscious or get liver cancer. No wonder people chose Him as their… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
“In Bobby Ogle's version of heaven everyone would wind up in one place, criminals and Muslims included.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
“Lusa turned to Crys, her eyes shining. "That was a luna." Crys shrugged. "So?" "So? So what? You want it should sing, too?” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
“An imperfectly remembered life is a useless treachery. Every day, more fragments of the past roll around heavily in the chambers of an empty… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
“Somehow it had come to pass that this man was her whole world, and she had failed to take his measure.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
But we've all ended up giving body and soul to Africa, one way or another. Even Adah, who's becoming an expert in tropical epidemiology… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
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