“People hang on for dear life to that one, she thought: the fool they are right now.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business...I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“I’ve seen many a small life meet its doom at the end of a beak in our yard, not just beetles and… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
What life can I live that will let me breathe in and out and love somebody or something and not run off… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“That night marks my life's dark center, the moment when growing up ended and the long downward slope toward death began. The… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“If you ask me, that's reason enough to keep a kitchen at the center of a family's life, as a place to… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“It lasted just a moment, whatever that is. One held breath? An ant's afternoon? It was brief, I can promise that much,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“A novel works it's magic by putting a reader inside another person's life. The pace is as slow as life. It's as… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“But a Congolese life is like the useless Congolese bill, which you can pile by the fistful or the bucketful into a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“First, picture the forest. I want you to be its conscience, the eyes in the trees. The trees are columns of slick,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I've survived anger only one minute at a time, by saying to myself again and again that the best kind of… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“For the first time in her life she could see perfectly well how a person arrived on that flight path: needing an… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. The most you can do… — 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
