“Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work--that goes on, and… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
War so conspicuously benefits rich men and kills the poor ones. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“The war's [World War II] end has left America with loads of get-up-and-go, and no place to go. ” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“War is the supreme mathematics problem. It strains our skulls, yet we work out the sums, believing we have pressed the most… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
We must surely appear to the world as exactly what we are: a nation that organizes its economy around consuming twice as… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Man against Nature...Of all the possible conflicts, that was the one that was hopeless. Even a slim education had taught her this… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Come on, people. Doesn't anybody remember how to take a big old knife, whack open a pumpkin, scrape out the seeds, and… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes… — 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
All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Your blood for mine. If not these, then those. War is the supreme mathematics problem. It strains our skulls, yet we work… — 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
