There are always more questions. Science as a process is never complete. It is not a foot race, with a finish line....… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“So one time when I was working in this motel one of the toilets leaked and I had to replace the flapper… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I lost a child," she said, meeting Lusa's eyes directly. "I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn… — 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
But Anatole said suddenly, 'Don't expect God's protection in places beyond God's dominion. It will only make you feel punished. I'm warning… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Human manners are wildly inconsistent; plenty of people have said so. But this one takes the cake: the manner in which we're… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
But nothing on this earth is guaranteed, when you get right down to it, you know ? I've been thinking about that.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words. — 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
