“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
“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
