“And here is the shocking plot twist: as farmers produced those extra calories, the food industry figured out how to get them… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“She kept her ears permanently tuned to the chicken voices outside, so knew immediately when a coyote had crept into the yard,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“...we sang in church " Tata Nzolo "! Which means Father in Heaven or Father of Fish Bait depending on just how… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
If you never stepped on anybody's toes, you never been for a walk. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Sept 15 1930 at the independence festival of the school of cretins…"At the head of the table by the bowl of pomegranates,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“The room looks as if a giant dog after a large lunch of food, socks, paints, trousers and pencils, walked into that… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“From what he could see she had the legs of a much younger woman. Certainly not what he would have expected in… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Maybe he's been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“I found the right (Valentine) card to send her. On the cover there were hearts, and it said, "Here's hoping you'll soon… — 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
