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But I've swallowed my pride before, that's for sure. I'm practically lined with my mistakes on the inside like a bad-wallpapered bathroom. — 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

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

Sympathizing over the behavior of men is the baking soda of women's friendships, it seems,the thing that makes them bubble and rise. — Barbara Kingsolver

Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it. — Barbara Kingsolver

But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run. — Barbara Kingsolver

Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it. — Barbara Kingsolver

So he just stood there brewing like a coffeepot. Onlywith a coffeepot you know exactly what's going to come out of it. — Barbara Kingsolver

When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke. — Barbara Kingsolver

A writer's occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business. — Barbara Kingsolver

You can't let your heart go bad like that, like sour milk. There's always a chance you'll want to use it later. — Barbara Kingsolver

For God's sake, man," Ovid nearly shouted, "the damn globe is catching fire, and the islands are drowning. The evidence is staring them in the face. — 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

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

It's tough to break yourself as news to a town that already knows you. — Barbara Kingsolver

Well, yeah," Dovey said. "That's America. We watch shows about rich people's houses and their designer dresses and we drool. It's patriotic. — Barbara Kingsolver

Some of life's greatest calls were answered not by the head but by the body. — Barbara Kingsolver

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

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

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

It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else. — Barbara Kingsolver

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. — Barbara Kingsolver

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. — Barbara Kingsolver

Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose. — Barbara Kingsolver

As a dinner guest I gratefully eat just about anything that's set before me, because graciousness among friends is dearer to me than any other agenda. — Barbara Kingsolver

It's just lucky for Father he never had any sons. He might have been forced to respect them. — Barbara Kingsolver

That is surely childhood's end, when you look at a thing like a rabbit needing skinned and have to say: "Nobody else is going to do this. — Barbara Kingsolver

There's nothing like living as a refugee in one's own country to turn a generous soul into a hard little fist. — Barbara Kingsolver

It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known. — Barbara Kingsolver

Let's all sing the redneck national anthem: Settle for what you can get. — Barbara Kingsolver

A novel has to entertain
that's the contract with the reader: you give me ten hours and I'll give you a reason to turn every page. — Barbara Kingsolver

Maybe he's been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony. — Barbara Kingsolver

It's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time. — Barbara Kingsolver

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 back and pick up the pace. — 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

She's never forgotten, either, how a mystery caught in the hand could lose its grace — Barbara Kingsolver

Let's go take a walk down to the blue hole. You need to look at some water. — Barbara Kingsolver

The last generations's worst fears become the next one's B-grade entertainment. — Barbara Kingsolver

It's what you do that makes your soul. — Barbara Kingsolver

A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal? You just can't. That's all there is to it. — Barbara Kingsolver

I think maybe it is true that the idle mind is the Devil's workshop. — Barbara Kingsolver

People automatically estimate a mom's IQ at around her children's ages, maybe dividing by the number of kids, rounding up to the nearest pajama size. — Barbara Kingsolver

Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. — Barbara Kingsolver

It's a selfish habit. I never learn anything from listening to myself. — Barbara Kingsolver

In Bobby Ogle's version of heaven everyone would wind up in one place, criminals and Muslims included. — Barbara Kingsolver

Downstream is always someone else's up. — Barbara Kingsolver

It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future. — Barbara Kingsolver

There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet. — Barbara Kingsolver

The war's [World War II] end has left America with loads of get-up-and-go, and no place to go. — Barbara Kingsolver

This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden. — Barbara Kingsolver

A flower is a plant's way of making love. — Barbara Kingsolver

That's how it is: some people are content to wait till you ask, while others jump right in with the whole story. — Barbara Kingsolver

He doesn't even look at her because there is too much there, and he's afraid. She is his first child, his favorite, every mistake he ever made. — Barbara Kingsolver

Most every book I bring into the world is like birthing a baby; it's a lot of effort! — Barbara Kingsolver

If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business. — Barbara Kingsolver

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

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

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

If it's important, your heart remembers. — 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

Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he's entitled to joy rather than submission? — Barbara Kingsolver

Isn't it awfully sad to thing that's all history amounts to, just following the next stupid fashion? — Barbara Kingsolver

Previously chewed meals. Cub held up one labeled "Monster Machines," but she shook her head. "That's not really what Preston — Barbara Kingsolver

There are some who'd hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think's been too lucky. — Barbara Kingsolver

My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit. — Barbara Kingsolver

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. — Barbara Kingsolver

You can resign from the Woman's Club, but the world is all, you can't just stop attending. — Barbara Kingsolver

So Noah cursed all Ham's children to be slaves forever and ever. That's how come them to turn out dark — Barbara Kingsolver

If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink. — Barbara Kingsolver

I've always found people love you best if you can laugh at your own foolish misfortunes and keep mum about everyone else's — Barbara Kingsolver

There are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a dog of having a bark! — Barbara Kingsolver

The purpose of art is to elevate the spirit or to pay a surgeon's bill. Or both. It can help a person remember or forget. — Barbara Kingsolver

If you never stepped on anybody's toes, you never been for a walk. — Barbara Kingsolver

Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper. — 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

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

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

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

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

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