“LISTEN, don’t believe in fairy tales! After that happy-ever-after wedding, they never tell you the rest of the story. Even if you… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Yet I stake a claim, I am here, for I must be somewhere. But only as a child it seems, struggling to… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“That would be Axelroot all over, to turn up with an extra wife or two claiming that's how they do it here.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Cub retreated to the familiar grounds of remorse and insufficiency, the terms of his existence, ratified by marriage.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“At some point in the evening Dellarobia had stopped being amazed that Ovid had turned into someone new, and understood he had… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“She married him two years ago for love, or so she thought, and he's a good enough man but a devotee of… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“I know how people are with their habits of mind... as a husband quits a wife, leaving her with her naked body… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“A creature with a big enough head to make a contract should have the sense to make one it can keep.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Arguments could fill a marriage like water, running through everything, always, with no taste or color but lots of noise. — 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
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
“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
