Time Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

The past is all we know of the future.

— Barbara Kingsolver

“A territory is only possessed for a moment in time.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Sometimes the past can vanish.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“A bird in the hand loses its mystery in no time flat.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

Time cures you first, and then it kills you.

— Barbara Kingsolver

“All hope and future lost in a day.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Why should it feel so risky to count concretely on a future?”

— Barbara Kingsolver

Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.

— Barbara Kingsolver

“El tiempo cura y nos mata. Time cures you first, and then it kills you.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

— Barbara Kingsolver

There is something in us that loves certain disasters and the fever of this moment and surrendering to that.

— Barbara Kingsolver

It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.

— Barbara Kingsolver

The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a…

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

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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined:…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when…

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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

“Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side. Betrayal is a friend…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“What you hold in your hands right now, beneath these words, is consecrated air and time and sunlight and, first of all,…

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

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I write every moment that is humanly possible. I write every day and every night. The only discipline I lack is the…

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

Every one of us is called upon, perhaps many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move,…

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When the scope of the problem seems insuperable, isn't it time to call this one, give it up, and get on with…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“This household is like a pocketful of coins that jingled together for a time, but now have been slapped on a counter…

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Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open…

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“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

I struggle with confidence, every time. I’m never completely sure I can write another book. Maybe my scope is too grand, my…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“So one time when I was working in this motel one of the toilets leaked and I had to replace the flapper…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Planning complex, beautiful meals and investing one's heart and time in their preparation is the opposite of self-indulgence. Kitchen-based family gatherings are…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“But his kind will always lose in the end. I know this, and now I know why. Whether it's wife or nation…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“That night marks my life's dark center, the moment when growing up ended and the long downward slope toward death began. The…

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“I took my time exploring. I savored the first minutes in a new home. Carlos would always go straight to unpacking boxes,…

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“The tunnel of winter had settled over our lives, ushered in by that great official Hoodwink, the end of daylight saving time.…

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“Hallie didn't believe she was invulnerable. She was never one of those daredevil types; she knew she could get hurt. What I…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past

— Barbara Kingsolver

“My future was mapped in negatives. Next year, I could be anywhere but here.”

— Barbara Kingsolver