He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. "Sending a girl to college is like pouring… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“If it crosses your mind that water running through hundreds of miles of open ditch in a desert will evaporate and end… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Water, in Grace, is an all-or-nothing proposition, like happiness. When you have rain you have more than enough, just as when you're… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
We aimed for no more than to have dominion over every creature that moved upon the earth. And so it came to… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Arguments could fill a marriage like water, running through everything, always, with no taste or color but lots of noise. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I knew the… — 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
