Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

They saw that even the crooked girl believed her own life was precious. That is what it means to be a beast in the kingdom

Nobody had planted these flowers, I felt sure, nor harvested them either; these were works that the Lord had gone ahead and finished on His own. He must have lacked faith in mankind's follow-through c...

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 people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assu...

Having children was not like people said. Forget training them in your footsteps; the minute they put down the teething ring and found the Internet, you were useless as a source of anything but shoes...

Think of all the duties that were perfectly obvious to Paul or Matthew in that old Arabian desert that are pure nonsense to us now. All that foot washing, for example. Was it really for God's glory or...

Well, but it’s criminal negligence, really. These kids have to grow up and run things. Larger things than a ball field, I mean. What kind of world will they really be able to make?

You know what really gets me? I asked him. How people call you ‘illegals.’ That just pisses me off, I don’t know how you can stand it. A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But ho...

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

Plus, Tig said, it reminds me to be patient. Seeing all these people that have passed on. I get frustrated sometimes, waiting.For people to die?Yeah. To be honest. The guys in charge of everything rig...

It lasted just a moment, whatever that is. One held breath? An ant's afternoon? It was brief, I can promise that much, for although it's been many years now since my children ruled my life, a mother r...

Please Note. Parts are included for all installations, but no installation requires all of the parts.’ That’s

The notebook from the tobacco stand was the beginning of hope: a prisoner’s plan for escape. Its empty pages would be the book of everything, miraculous and unending like the sea at night, a heartbeat...

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

You knew me well enough to find me here,' she said.And his scent burst onto her brain like a rain of lights, and his voice reached across the distance without words: 'I've always known you that well.'...

This particular brand of tyrant, though. Yikes, Willa said. I can’t take him seriously. He’s going to burn out before the first primary. Don’t count on it. There’s a lot of white folks out there hangi...

And fairly enough she thought, for that was the way of the world. A road was to be driven upon. The candy dish was there to be eaten, money in the bank got spent, people claimed whatever they could ge...

How had she not seen all this? Willa was the one who raised her anxiety shield against every family medical checkup or late-night ring of the phone, expecting the worst so life couldn’t blindside them...

For time and eternity there have been fathers like Nathan who simply can see no way to have a daughter but to own her like a plot of land. To work her, plow her under, rain down a dreadful poison upon...

You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient.