Quote by Barbara Kingsolver Download Open image ““The clock gulps softly, eating second whole while she waits...”” — Barbara Kingsolver ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The clock moves on and hours pass too quickly; I was only a second in the tactful moments of life.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
“I avoid looking at the clock, fearing the slow passing of time that will only seem slower if I watch its progress.” — Michelle Zink Copy Share Image
“... She was a clock, I could tell by the ticking in her wrist. (I'd secretly slipped my thumb down, to feel her pulse… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
“...she had already tasted a delicious spoonful of sleep, and all she wanted was another.” — Leila Howland Copy Share Image
“But the night doesn't swallow her up. Everywhere she goes she is still there; the silence is as big as herself.” — Adrienne Su Copy Share Image
“But the day was coming: she could almost taste its nearness like the mouth-watering scent of a long-hungered meal just outside of reach.” — Susan Kaye Quinn Copy Share Image
“I asked for the time, and she sold me a way to divide my attention into 12 equal parts. I asked her out to… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“She knows her timing, always knows. The time to strike or the time to starve. Her eyes as a clock, she watches she waits… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
“The clock always ticks. There are times you don’t hear it, and there are times that you do. I” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“Fortunately, though she was hungry, she didn't mind missing a meal. Life was full of meals. They took up an enormous proportion of one's… — Elizabeth von Arnim 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
