Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.

You can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece

The thing is, it's my own fault. I just can't put up with a person that won't go out of his way for me. And that's what a man is. Somebody that won't go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in t...

Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

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

She stops trying to talk for a while, since there is nothing to say about a lost child that can change one star in a father’s lonely sky.

Priests were illegal, saying the mass was illegal, all banned by the Revolution.

Without shelter, we stand in daylight.

Was this what they meant by hot flashes? But they didn’t feel hot. Her body felt full and heavy and slow and human and absent somehow, just a weight to be carried forward without its enthusiastic cycl...

Tata Jesus is bangala!

If fight or flight is the choice, it’s way easier to fly.

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

Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was the lifes work of a real person or family, people who built their lives around a promise and...

The policy of our nation is made in cities, controlled largely by urban voters who aren’t well informed about the changes on the face of our land, and the men and women who work it.

Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.

I will never understand it, she said. We’re the top of our food chain, so you’d think we’d relate to those guys the best. Seems like we’d be trying to talk them into trade agreements. Eddie laughed at...

She would die of him or be cured.

Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?

This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If th...

Summer's heat had never really arrived, nor the cold in it's turn, and everything living now seemed to yearn for sun with the anguish of the unloved. The world of sensible seasons had come undone.