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
“Already? How can this be?” I would ask, shattered by the terrible truth that I needed a three-ring binder and some #2… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
But Anatole said suddenly, 'Don't expect God's protection in places beyond God's dominion. It will only make you feel punished. I'm warning… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“I am telling you what I’m telling you. Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“So you make a deal with the gods. You do these dances and they'll send rain and good crops and the whole… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“So you make this deal with the gods. You do these dances and they'll send rain and good crops and the whole… — 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 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
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“In Bobby Ogle's version of heaven everyone would wind up in one place, criminals and Muslims included.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
