“Jesus was a more reliable backer, evidently, less likely to drink himself unconscious or get liver cancer. No wonder people chose Him… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Sympathizing over the behavior of men is the baking soda of women's friendships, it seems,the thing that makes them bubble and rise.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers! — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
... Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, 'so far from everything?' When I hear this question over the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Roscoe and his friends are studying the heat of the fire and the level of oil in the pot with the attitude… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Now, see, that's why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“I certainly sense a bit of that when urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, “so far from everything?”… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“TELL ALL THE TRUTH but tell it slant, says my friend Emily Dickinson.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I have my own sheep and I literally sheer the sheep and knot sweaters for friends and family from scratch. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“If a friend had a coronary scare and finally started exercising three days a week, who would hound him about the other… — 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
