Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another- that is surely the basic instinct! Time to move out into the glorious… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business...I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Lou Ann’s life was ruled by the fear of salmonella, to the extent that she claimed the only safe way to eat… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“She would just be catching up when I'd go again, swimming farther out into life because I still hadn't found a rock… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history... Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“It lasted just a moment, whatever that is. One held breath? An ant's afternoon? It was brief, I can promise that much,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“All that hurry can blur the truth that life is a zero-sum equation. Every minute I save will get used on something… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“This was a living flow, like a pulse through veins, with the cells bursting and renewing themselves as they went. The sudden… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
... Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, 'so far from everything?' When I hear this question over the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Water, in Grace, is an all-or-nothing proposition, like happiness. When you have rain you have more than enough, just as when you're… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“I don't expect to see perfection before I die. Lord, if I did I would have stuck my head in the oven… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green, for my children's safety, for the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“For the first time in her life she could see perfectly well how a person arrived on that flight path: needing an… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. The most you can do… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“If you ask me, that's reason enough to keep a kitchen at the center of a family's life, as a place to… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Codi: So you think we all just have animal dreams. We can't think of anything to dream except our ordinary lives. Loyd:… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
My life is a pitiful, mechanical thing without a past, like a little wind-up car, ready to run in any direction someone… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“She looked like Cinderella in reverse, stepped out from her life at the ball for a day of misery among the ashes.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
my own relationships with the animals in my life are absurdly complex: Some I love, some I eat, and the scraps left… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
What life can I live that will let me breathe in and out and love somebody or something and not run off… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Looking out on a clean plank of planet earth, we can get shaken right down to the bone by the bronze-eyed possibility… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“She never says gracias because life is made of survival not grace, she says, and servants are paid to bring what they're… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing… — 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
