Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can't… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I'm never going to tell the reader what to believe; I'm going to examine these characters that believe different ways, and examine… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history... Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it's going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
You think you're the foreigner here, and I'm the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The thing is, it's my own fault. I just can't put up with a person that won't go out of his way… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The way I see it, a person isn't nothing more than a scarecrow... The only difference between one that stands up good… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
With all due respect for the wondrous ways people have invented to amuse themselves and one another on paved surfaces, I find… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I don't know what rituals my kids will carry into adulthood, whether they'll grow up attached to homemade pizza on Friday nights,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
...trust in Creation which is made fresh daily and doesn’t suffer in translation. This God does not work in especially mysterious ways.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
But we've all ended up giving body and soul to Africa, one way or another. Even Adah, who's becoming an expert in… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
For time and eternity there have been fathers like Nathan who simply can see no way to have a daughter but to… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Children model the behavior of adults, on whatever scale is available to them. Ours are growing up in a nation whose most… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
A careless way of sauntering across the earth and breaking open its treasures, a terrible dependency on sucking out the world's best… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways as if we were both party… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Americans who read and think are patriots of the first order. The kind who know enough to roll their eyes whenever anyone… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Most of the girls my age, or even younger, have babies. They appear way too young to be married, till you look… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I didn't study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise, ultimately defiant act of… — 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
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
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
“In Bobby Ogle's version of heaven everyone would wind up in one place, criminals and Muslims included.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
“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
“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
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
“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
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
I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
But we've all ended up giving body and soul to Africa, one way or another. Even Adah, who's becoming an expert in tropical epidemiology… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
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