All Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
- This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing… All
- There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable… Believe
- It's terrible to lose somebody, but it's also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that's got to be so… Anybody
- Now, see, that's why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy...the trouble… Agree
- Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is. Funny
- They all attended Hester's church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the… All
- There are always more questions. Science as a process is never complete. It is not a foot race, with a finish line.... People will always… Approach
- Insomnia’s different,†I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door?… All
- For scientists, reality is not optional. Inspirational
- Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working… All
- Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where… Any
- I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written. Book
- I can think of no honorable answer. Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste, while others deliberate between damp dirt and bone… Another World
- Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up. Driving
- A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture. Certain
- ...whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. And peace will be with you. Anything Worthy
- Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults? Adults
- You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next. All
- Patriotism threatens free speech with death. It is infuriated by thoughtful hesitation, constructive criticism of our leaders and pleas for peace. It despises people of… American
- I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer's block, oh, I have to… Block