Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

What keeps you going isn't just some fine destination but the road you're on and the fact you know how to drive.

What other man, ever again, would just do as she commanded, no questions asked? She felt overwhelmed with love and loss and nostalgia for this bond that was not even yet in her past,

What we suffered in our lives we went through together, but somehow we came out different doors, on different ground levels.

What you hold in your hands right now, beneath these words, is consecrated air and time and sunlight and, first of all, a place.

Whatever you want the most, it’s going to be the worst thing for you.

When I'm in a blue mood, I head for the kitchen. I turn the pages of my favorite cookbooks, summoning the prospective joyful noise of a shared meal. I stand over a bubbling soup, close my eyes, and in...

When he marched to the altar, all the women in smart hats leaned away from the aisle, their long strands of pearls all swaying to one side as if the deck of a ship listed beneath them.

When my generation of women walked away from the kitchen we were escorted down that path by a profiteering industry that knew a tired, vulnerable marketing target when they saw it. Hey, ladies, it sai...

When they are pushed down long enough they will rise up. If they bite you, they are trying to fix things in the only way they know.

When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.

With that one little booklet put back in place, it came as a different story. Because of that burrow through rock and water—lacuna, he called it. This time I read with a different heart, understanding...

Yet I stake a claim, I am here, for I must be somewhere. But only as a child it seems, struggling to understand what every wife and gentleman passing on the street seems to know by rote. Whom to love,...

You can't just sashay into the jungle aiming to change it all over to the Christian style, without expecting the jungle to change you right back.

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.

You can’t let your heart go bad like that, like sour milk. There’s always the chance you’ll want to use it later.

You feel like you’ll never run into another one that’s worth turning your head around for, but you will. You’ll see. No,

You from out of town? he asked after a while, eying my car. No, I said. I go to Kentucky every year to get my license plate. I didn’t like his looks.

You learn to read so you can identify the reality in which you live, so that you can become a protagonist history rather than a spectator Father Fernando Cardenal

You learn to read so you can identify the reality in which you live, so that you can become a protagonist of history rather than a spectator.

Your blood for mine. If not these, then those. War is the supreme mathematics problem. It strains our skulls, yet we work out the sums, believing we have pressed the most monstrous quantities into a b...