But we've all ended up giving body and soul to Africa, one way or another. Even Adah, who's becoming an expert in… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
There are some who'd hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Those first few weeks are an unearthly season. From the outside you remain so ordinary, no one can tell from looking that… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
For time and eternity there have been fathers like Nathan who simply can see no way to have a daughter but to… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Tomorrow these villagers would carry their secret icons into the church without any priest and light the candles themselves, moving together in… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Like Daniel she enteres the lions' den, but lacking Daniel's pure and unblemished soul, Ada is spiced with the flavors of vice… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own… — 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
