Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves? — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Shoes would interfere with her conversation, for she constantly addresses the ground under her feet. Asking forgiveness. Owning, disowning, recanting, recharting a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn't it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
It feels strange to me to be living in a box, hiding from the steadying influence of the moon; wearing the hide… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
But we've all ended up giving body and soul to Africa, one way or another. Even Adah, who's becoming an expert in… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
There are always more questions. Science as a process is never complete. It is not a foot race, with a finish line…… — 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
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