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
I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of… — 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
Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Height isn't something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of… — 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
Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next. — 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
