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
“An imperfectly remembered life is a useless treachery. Every day, more fragments of the past roll around heavily in the chambers of… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you… — 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
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
High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful… — 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
“mountains. They stand at every view, like a mother offering a blanket in which to wrap everyday life and shelter it from… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“She would just be catching up when I'd go again, swimming farther out into life because I still hadn't found a rock… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another- that is surely the basic instinct! Time to move out into the glorious… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Every one of us is called upon, perhaps many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“People need wild places. Whether or not we think we do, we do. We need to be able to taste grace and… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“A lifetime of people, unconfirmed by their living presences, or photographs or descriptions in a notebook, can only skulk in the corners… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“a single-file army of ants biting a mammoth tree into uniform grains and hauling it down to the dark for their ravenous… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Here comes Moses tromping down off Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
my own relationships with the animals in my life are absurdly complex: Some I love, some I eat, and the scraps left… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life. — 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
“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
