Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

Previously chewed meals. Cub held up one labeled Monster Machines, but she shook her head. That’s not really what Preston

The minute they put down the teething ring and found the Internet, you were useless as a source of anything but shoes and a winter coat.

A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.

A disappointed-looking Jesus eyed her from the wall...Look, look, her steps called out, here is a red headed sinner on the move.

A flower is a plant's way of making love.

A mother’s unfulfilled ambitions lie heaviest on her daughters.

At some point in the evening Dellarobia had stopped being amazed that Ovid had turned into someone new, and understood he had become himself, in the presence of his wife. With the sense of a great wei...

Both vitamin pills and vegetables are loaded with essential nutrients, but not in the same combinations. Spinach is a good source of both vitamin C and iron. As it happens, vitamin C boosts iron absor...

Christmas music fills our ears with tales of a Palestinian miracle birth, a generous Turkish saint whom the Dutch dressed in a red suit, and a Druid ceremonial tree…

Cub retreated to the familiar grounds of remorse and insufficiency, the terms of his existence, ratified by marriage.

Do you know, I spent the first half of my life avoiding motherhood and tires, and now I’m counting them as blessings?

Do you think its possible to live without wanting to put your name on your paintings? To belong to a group so securely you don't need to rise above it?

Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he's entitled to joy rather than submission?

Eaters must understand, Wendell Berry writes, that eating takes place inescapably in the world, that it is inescapably an agricultural act, and that how we eat determines, to a considerable extent, ho...

Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.

Every kind of weather is intensified by warming.

Here, bodily damage is more or less considered to be a by-product of living, not a disgrace.

Mountains. They stand at every view, like a mother offering a blanket in which to wrap everyday life and shelter it from useless. dreads. In june they are walls of white rhodendron blossom. In autumn...