Love Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

A flower is a plant's way of making love.

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Love weighs nothing.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

Our plans are small and somewhat absurd.

— Barbara Kingsolver

“She would die of him or be cured.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Peace and Love, get high and fly with the dove.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.

— Barbara Kingsolver

The wrong words are impossible when there are no words.

— Barbara Kingsolver

It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.

— Barbara Kingsolver

The happiest people are the ones with the most community.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.

— Barbara Kingsolver

God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.

— Barbara Kingsolver

If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business.

— Barbara Kingsolver

We tap our toes to chaste love songs about the silvery moon without recognizing them as hymns to copulation.

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Humans are in love with the idea of our persisting,' he said. 'We fetishize it, really. Our retirement funds, our genealogies. Our…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Mother, you can still hold hold on but forgive, forgive and give for long as long as we both shall live, I…

— Barbara Kingsolver

We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“If men only knew, modesty makes women fall in love faster than all the cock-a-doodling in the world.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control…

— Barbara Kingsolver

You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our country, while…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Love. But the pure kind of love. I don't think that comes very often. Most of us are ordinary. If we do…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“What other man, ever again, would just do as she commanded, no questions asked? She felt overwhelmed with love and loss and…

— Barbara Kingsolver

This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“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

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

I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or…

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

“The seat of human emotion should be the liver," Doc Homer said. "That would be an appropriate metaphor: we don't hold love…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Every few weeks I get a letter from Léopoldville, which holds me on track. My heart races when I see the long…

— Barbara Kingsolver

With all due respect for the wondrous ways people have invented to amuse themselves and one another on paved surfaces, I find…

— Barbara Kingsolver

A miscarriage is a natural and common event. All told, probably more women have lost a child from this world than haven't.…

— Barbara Kingsolver

But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be…

— Barbara Kingsolver

There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.

— Barbara Kingsolver

“she considered a language that could carry nothing but love and simple truth.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“There's people I love. But there's so many other kinds of love, too. And people act so hateful to every kind but…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“She married him two years ago for love, or so she thought, and he's a good enough man but a devotee of…

— Barbara Kingsolver

In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They…

— Barbara Kingsolver