Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

If God speaks for the man who keeps quiet, then Violet Brown may be His instrument.

If a shipment of ground beef somehow gets contaminated with pathogens, our federal government does not have authority to recall the beef, only to request that the company issue a recall.

It is possible to establish zero tolerance for murder as a solution to anything

It was pretty clear there would be no stopping the Bullhorn, or someone like him. Here was the earthquake, the fire, flood, and melting permafrost, with everyone still grabbing for bricks to put in th...

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

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. Well, I put up with him anyway.

Mom. The permafrost is melting. Millions of acres of it.Willa tried to see a connection. And I’m just worried about my house. That’s your point?Tig shook her head. It’s so, so scary. It’s going to be...

My future was mapped in negatives. Next year, I could be anywhere but here.

One person's picture postcard is someone else's normal.

Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.

She understands all at once, with a small shock, exactly what it is she always needed to tell Harland: being there in person is not the same as watching. You might see things better on television, but...

So she was what Hester called a 911 Christian: in the event of an emergency, call the Lord.

The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don't know.

This Forest eats itself and lives forever.

This household is like a pocketful of coins that jingled together for a time, but now have been slapped on a counter to pay a price. The pocket empties out, the coins venture back into the infinite ci...

This is why we do it all over again every year. Fueled only by the stuff they drink from the air and earth, the bush beans fill out their rows, the okra booms, the corn stretches eagerly toward the sk...

Was it normal now for parents to operate in the dark? She never knew what was fair to ask.

Where you'd be wearing out the knees of your trousers, sir, they just have to go ahead and wear out their knees!

You force people to stop asking questions, and before you know it they have auctioned off the question mark, or sold it for scrap. No boldness. No good ideas for fixing what's broken in the land. Beca...

You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.