The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Adah inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was… — 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
You don't think you'll live past it and you don't really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
A flower is your cousin...Sometimes a person has got to take a life, like a chicken's or a hog's when you need… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it's… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The way I see it, a person isn't nothing more than a scarecrow... The only difference between one that stands up good… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn't do. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The thing is, it's my own fault. I just can't put up with a person that won't go out of his way… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
the novel is inherently a political instrument, regardless of its subject. It invites you - more than invites you, induces you -… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal?… — 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
