Barbara Kingsolver quotes

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. (Barbara Kingsolver)
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. View quote
Barbara Kingsolver
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off. View quote
Barbara Kingsolver
We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts. View quote
Barbara Kingsolver
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier. View quote
Barbara Kingsolver
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. View quote
Barbara Kingsolver
The truth needs so little rehearsal. View quote
Barbara Kingsolver
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life. View quote
Barbara Kingsolver
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. View quote
Barbara Kingsolver
At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But at another point, much earlier I think, I'd quietly begun to hope for nothing at all in the way of love, so as not to be disappointed. It works. It gets to be a habit. View quote
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The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing. (Barbara Kingsolver)
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. View quote
Barbara Kingsolver
A wife is the earth itself, changing hands, bearing scars. View quote
Barbara Kingsolver
The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here. View quote
Barbara Kingsolver
Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life. View quote
Barbara Kingsolver
It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. View quote
Barbara Kingsolver
Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it. View quote
Barbara Kingsolver
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. View quote
Barbara Kingsolver
Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. View quote
Barbara Kingsolver
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can. View quote
Barbara Kingsolver
The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know. (Barbara Kingsolver)
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life. View quote
Barbara Kingsolver
If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life. View quote
Barbara Kingsolver
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own. View quote
Barbara Kingsolver
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation. View quote
Barbara Kingsolver