I don't know what rituals my kids will carry into adulthood, whether they'll grow up attached to homemade pizza on Friday nights,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives. — 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
...trust in Creation which is made fresh daily and doesn’t suffer in translation. This God does not work in especially mysterious ways.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
For time and eternity there have been fathers like Nathan who simply can see no way to have a daughter but to… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find:… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
But nothing on this earth is guaranteed, when you get right down to it, you know ? I've been thinking about 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