“Being a peacock is not the only way to hide yourself, Frida. A pigeon can hide.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“...when the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“She is not a bulldog, only a woman pressed into the shape of a small jar, possibly attempting to dance in there.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“But this boy in a French or British factory, standing in his leather overall welding the casing on a metal bomb; what… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Most of them don't know what communism is, could not pick it out of a lineup. They only know what anticommunism is.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Outside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry but unsympathetic. The usual position of mothers.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Love. But the pure kind of love. I don't think that comes very often. Most of us are ordinary. If we do… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
