Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver Famous Quotes & Sayings
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One way of surviving heartache is to stay busy. Making something right in at least one tiny corner of the vast house of wrongs...
I'm too fascinated to hide indoors or stay cooped up in our yard. Curiosity killed the cat, I know, but I try to land on my feet.
From what he could see she had the legs of a much younger woman. Certainly not what he would have expected in the way of Unitarian legs.
When men want to kiss you they act like they are just on the brink of doing something that's going to change the whole wide world.
Sympathizing over the behavior of men is the baking soda of women's friendships, it seems,the thing that makes them bubble and rise.
In our state - no kidding - they are called Standards of Learning, or "SOLs." (I don't think anyone intended the joke.)
It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.
He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life.
How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
What keeps you going isn't just some fine destination but the road you're on and the fact you know how to drive.
I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
Take one trip overland here and you'll know forever that a road in the jungle is a sweet, flat, impossible dream.
There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet.
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 much worse.
If you look hard enough you can always see reasons, but you'll go crazy if you think it's all punishment for your sins.
After a while Estevan said, What I really hate is not belonging in any place. To be unwanted everywhere.
Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper.
She wondered if humiliation ever ran its natural course and peeled off, like a sunburn, or just kept blazing.
In my opinion, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from a greaty height.
I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. I crave to be rid of them ...
I don't *ever* write about real people. Art is supposed to be better than that. If you want a slice of life, look out the window.
This is what it means to be very slow: every story you would like to tell has already ended before you can open your mouth.
There are days when I am envious of my hens:
when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure
as a single daily egg.
when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure
as a single daily egg.
No, you shouldn't have come here. But you are here, so yes, you should be here. There are more words in the world then yes and no.
A woman without a man
a condition of 'manlessness'
is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife.
a condition of 'manlessness'
is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife.
Sometimes that happens. Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them," she said. "It works out.
In almost thirty years of walking around on the grass of the world, she couldn't recall having spent two minutes alone with a butterfly.
I almost never respect men. They're like flowers
all show, a lot of color and lust. You pick them and throw them on the ground.
all show, a lot of color and lust. You pick them and throw them on the ground.
It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.
Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in their pursuit of eternity they never noticed the chill.
Hope is a renewable option:
If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
On the weekends. He'd mentioned a place called Sweet Briar where he met other scientists. She felt the trailer's absence
I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.
I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on your point of view.
We will change our ways significantly as a nation not when some laws tell us we have to (remember Prohibition?), but when we want to.
I don't know," Magda says, "Seems like that's just how it is with you and me. We're like islands on the moon.
I'd forgotten how trees full of bird sounds made you sense the world differently: that life didn't just stop at eye level.
So Noah cursed all Ham's children to be slaves forever and ever. That's how come them to turn out dark