“The tunnel of winter had settled over our lives, ushered in by that great official Hoodwink, the end of daylight saving time.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“She has changed in this way that motherhood changes you, so that you forget you ever had time for small things like… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“What do you think people want, if it's not greatness and to be remembered for all time?" "Mostly? I believe people want… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Hallie didn't believe she was invulnerable. She was never one of those daredevil types; she knew she could get hurt. What I… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“El tiempo cura y nos mata. Time cures you first, and then it kills you.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“All that hurry can blur the truth that life is a zero-sum equation. Every minute I save will get used on something… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“I think of my canning as fast food, paid for in time up front.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“But his kind will always lose in the end. I know this, and now I know why. Whether it's wife or nation… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“There's a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true but you haven't told anyone yet. Of… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side. Betrayal is a friend… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
When the scope of the problem seems insuperable, isn't it time to call this one, give it up, and get on with… — 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
