High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts. — 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 thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Some of life's greatest calls were answered not by the head but by the body.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“People hang on for dear life to that one, she thought: the fool they are right now.” — 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
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
“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
“Lou Ann’s life was ruled by the fear of salmonella, to the extent that she claimed the only safe way to eat… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its… — 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
“She never says gracias because life is made of survival not grace, she says, and servants are paid to bring what they're… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Looking out on a clean plank of planet earth, we can get shaken right down to the bone by the bronze-eyed possibility… — 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 wonder to me now is that I thought my life worth saving...Desperate to save myself in a river of people saving… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had… — 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
This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing… — 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
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
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
“The tunnel of winter had settled over our lives, ushered in by that great official Hoodwink, the end of daylight saving time.… — 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
“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
“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
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
God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own. — 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
“And I have no idea how to be kind to myself. Living, as a general enterprise, seems unkind beyond belief.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can. — 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
“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
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
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
“In Bobby Ogle's version of heaven everyone would wind up in one place, criminals and Muslims included.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
“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
“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
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
“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
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
I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
But we've all ended up giving body and soul to Africa, one way or another. Even Adah, who's becoming an expert in tropical epidemiology… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
