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
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Gilbert has established herself as a straight-up storyteller who dares us into adventures of worldly discovery, and this novel stands as a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“The writing of fiction is a dance between truth and invention” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“But newspapers have a duty to truth,' Van said. Lev clucked his tongue. 'They tell the truth only as the exception. Zola… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Adah inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“she considered a language that could carry nothing but love and simple truth.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Already? How can this be?” I would ask, shattered by the terrible truth that I needed a three-ring binder and some #2… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Lies are infinite in number, and the truth so small and singular. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“TELL ALL THE TRUTH but tell it slant, says my friend Emily Dickinson.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Béene-béene.' The truest truth. For my whole sixteen years I've rarely thought I was worth much more than a distracted grumble from… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. — 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
a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth. — 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
