“I think maybe it is true that the idle mind is the Devil's workshop.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean… — 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
Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits; only a cataclysm can make the electrons rear… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin, see… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“I was occupied so entirely by each day, I felt detached from anything so large as a month or a year. History… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“If it crosses your mind that water running through hundreds of miles of open ditch in a desert will evaporate and end… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Cooking without remuneration" and "slaving over a hot stove" are activities separated mostly by a frame of mind. The distinction is crucial.… — 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
