Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history... Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history. Even the child Ruth May touched history. Everyone is complicit.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“You learn to read so you can identify the reality in which you live, so that you can become a protagonist history… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits a log and the two… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“According to her, if he hasn't been dead twenty years, he isn't history.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
What we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard enough to… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Well, the ancients might not have been very heroic. Most of them were probably like Mother, crouched somewhere trying to work out… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Isn't it awfully sad to thing that's all history amounts to, just following the next stupid fashion?” — 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
Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“These paintings say Mexico is an ancient thing that will still go on forever telling its own story in slabs of color… — 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
