Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out… — 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
He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. "Sending a girl to college is like pouring… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
You know what the issue is? Do you want to know? It's what these guys have decided to call America. They have… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined:… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
But still, I’d be darned if I was going to be one of those Americans who stomp around Italy barking commands in… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
it takes your sleeping self years to catch up to where you really are. ... when you go on a trip, in… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Hallie and I... were all there was. The image in the mirror that proves you are still here. We had exactly one… — 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
Wake up now, look alive, for here is a day off work just to praise Creation: the turkey, the squash, and the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Sometimes I still have American dreams. I mean literally. I see microwave ovens and exercise machines and grocery store shelves with 30… — 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
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
“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
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
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
“In Bobby Ogle's version of heaven everyone would wind up in one place, criminals and Muslims included.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
“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
“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
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
“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
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
I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
But we've all ended up giving body and soul to Africa, one way or another. Even Adah, who's becoming an expert in tropical epidemiology… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
