“Pay attention to your dreams; when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you've… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“The spiraling flights of moths appear haphazard only because of the mechanisms of olfactory tracking are so different from our own. Using… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Take one trip overland here and you'll know forever that a road in the jungle is a sweet, flat, impossible dream.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
It wasn't a matter of courage or dreams, but something a whole lot simpler. A pilot would call it ground orientation. I'd… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the… — 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
Those first few weeks are an unearthly season. From the outside you remain so ordinary, no one can tell from looking that… — 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
Sometimes I still have American dreams. I mean literally. I see microwave ovens and exercise machines and grocery store shelves with 30… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
it takes your sleeping self years to catch up to where you really are. ... when you go on a trip, in… — 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 arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“We are bodies, sometimes with dreams and always with desires.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“I understood that the terror of my recurring dream was not about losing just vision, but the whole of myself, whatever that… — 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
