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Thought of the way a tree will keep on growing after a fence is wired around its trunk. The unbelievable force of that expansion. And I let her go. — Barbara Kingsolver

Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks. — Barbara Kingsolver

People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible. — Barbara Kingsolver

All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out. — Barbara Kingsolver

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. — Barbara Kingsolver

There is something in us that loves certain disasters and the fever of this moment and surrendering to that. — Barbara Kingsolver

What a knot of history one mistake can become. — Barbara Kingsolver

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. — Barbara Kingsolver

Most of them don't know what communism is, could not pick it out of a lineup. They only know what anticommunism is. The two are practically unrelated. — Barbara Kingsolver

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. — Barbara Kingsolver

I felt emptied-out and singing with echoes, unrecognizable to myself: that particular feeling like your own house on the day you move out. — Barbara Kingsolver

I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night. — Barbara Kingsolver

One person's picture postcard is someone else's normal. — Barbara Kingsolver

Today was the day. Every day was the day. — Barbara Kingsolver

He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions. — Barbara Kingsolver

It's monstrous, what one person will do to another. — Barbara Kingsolver

Take one trip overland here and you'll know forever that a road in the jungle is a sweet, flat, impossible dream. — Barbara Kingsolver

There's always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline. — Barbara Kingsolver

When push comes to shove, a mother takes care of her children from the bottom up. — Barbara Kingsolver

There's people I love. But there's so many other kinds of love, too. And people act so hateful to every kind but their own. — Barbara Kingsolver

I have my own sheep and I literally sheer the sheep and knot sweaters for friends and family from scratch. — Barbara Kingsolver

Isn't it crazy? Rich people in the United States don't even know how to use money properly. — Barbara Kingsolver

I write every moment that is humanly possible. I write every day and every night. The only discipline I lack is the discipline is to quit. — Barbara Kingsolver

Here, bodily damage is more or less considered to be a by-product of living, not a disgrace. — Barbara Kingsolver

A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in their pursuit of eternity they never noticed the chill. — Barbara Kingsolver

You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own. — Barbara Kingsolver

Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same — Barbara Kingsolver

I'll lead you to the river of knowledge. You can catch your own damn fish. — Barbara Kingsolver

Every kind of weather is intensified by warming. — Barbara Kingsolver

It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are. — Barbara Kingsolver

Outside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry but unsympathetic. The usual position of mothers. — Barbara Kingsolver

I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer. — Barbara Kingsolver

There will never be another Frida. — Barbara Kingsolver

But it's also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that's got to be so much worse." After — Barbara Kingsolver

Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the glittering sand bars to the sea. — Barbara Kingsolver

Our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward. — Barbara Kingsolver

If I kept trying to be what everybody wanted, I'd soon be insipid enough to fit in everywhere. — Barbara Kingsolver

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. — Barbara Kingsolver

Every family's its own trip to China. — Barbara Kingsolver

No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill. — Barbara Kingsolver

A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right. — Barbara Kingsolver

The truth needs so little rehearsal. — Barbara Kingsolver

We were not made for this killing thing, I swear. Back up. Big mistake. — Barbara Kingsolver

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. — Barbara Kingsolver

The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations. — Barbara Kingsolver

Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves? — Barbara Kingsolver

Our journey was to be a great enterprise of balance. My father, of course, was bringing the Word of God - which fortunately weighs nothing at all. — Barbara Kingsolver

There must be transients in the bird world too, rumple-feathered outcasts that naturally seek out each other's company in inferior and dying trees. — Barbara Kingsolver

Eyes can pierce a skull. — Barbara Kingsolver

This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it. — Barbara Kingsolver

Greatness is very boring. — Barbara Kingsolver

Soli, let me tell you. The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know. — Barbara Kingsolver

Nothing wondrous can come in this world unless it rests on the shoulders of kindness. He — Barbara Kingsolver

She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn't. — Barbara Kingsolver

Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it. — Barbara Kingsolver

The sting of a fly, the Congolese say, can launch the end of the world. How simply things begin. — Barbara Kingsolver

When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist. — Barbara Kingsolver

Whatever you want the most, it's going to be the worst for you. — Barbara Kingsolver

Always tried to be positive with her, although I'd learned — Barbara Kingsolver

Poor Congo, barefoot bride of men who took her jewels and promised the Kingdom. — Barbara Kingsolver

I vow I shall give all my very best books to the underprivileged, once I have read them — Barbara Kingsolver

You can't know somebody, I thought, till you've followed him home. — Barbara Kingsolver

The human person cannot face up to a bad outcome, that's just the deal. — Barbara Kingsolver

I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book. — Barbara Kingsolver

A territory is only possessed for a moment in time. — Barbara Kingsolver

The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here. — Barbara Kingsolver

The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best. — Barbara Kingsolver

On the weekends. He'd mentioned a place called Sweet Briar where he met other scientists. She felt the trailer's absence — Barbara Kingsolver

Arterial-plaque specials that save minutes now can cost years, later on. — Barbara Kingsolver

Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place. — Barbara Kingsolver

I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science. — Barbara Kingsolver

We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that. — Barbara Kingsolver

Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice. — Barbara Kingsolver

In my opinion, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from a greaty height. — Barbara Kingsolver

There is no life raft' you're just freaking swimming all the time. — Barbara Kingsolver

I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me. — Barbara Kingsolver

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. — Barbara Kingsolver

Time cures you first, and then it kills you. — Barbara Kingsolver

Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction. — Barbara Kingsolver

My thoughts kept straying onto random paths ... hoping to get lost in a thicket. — Barbara Kingsolver

That means you're my kid," I explained, "and I'm your mother, and nobody can say it isn't so. — Barbara Kingsolver

After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth. — Barbara Kingsolver

This is how we celebrate the Day of the Dead in America: by turning up our collars against the scent of earthworms calling us home. — Barbara Kingsolver

A storm was coming up from the south, moving slowly. It looked something like a huge blue-gray shower curtain being drawn along by the hand of God. — Barbara Kingsolver

I became determined to know a few steps more of that path every day. — Barbara Kingsolver

You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you. — Barbara Kingsolver

It is completely usual for me to get up in the morning, take a look around, and laugh out loud. — Barbara Kingsolver

They rock against each other, holding on, and the birds in the forest raise their voices to drown out the secret of creation. — Barbara Kingsolver

stopped: a final swish in the tall grass — Barbara Kingsolver

In the first hour of dawn, just as the hem of the sky began to whiten. — Barbara Kingsolver

God speaks for the silent man. — Barbara Kingsolver

A woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if she couldn't, this world would end at once. — Barbara Kingsolver

If it's important, your heart remembers. — Barbara Kingsolver

This is all going to scare us to death," she said. "You and me. But we're still going to have to do it. — Barbara Kingsolver

The way he talked sounded part Yankee, part foreign, like one of those friendly Irish policeman in the old movies: Ouch, mind you! — Barbara Kingsolver

The better part of friendship might be holding one's tongue over the prospect of self-made wreckage. — Barbara Kingsolver

We are bodies, sometimes with dreams and always with desires. — Barbara Kingsolver

The color brown, I realized, is anything but nondescript. It comes in as many hues as there are colors of earth, with is commonly presumed infinite. — Barbara Kingsolver

Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down. - Mrs. Brown — Barbara Kingsolver

From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood. — Barbara Kingsolver