Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise.
She has changed in this way that motherhood changes you, so that you forget you ever had time for small things like despising the color pink.
That means you're my kid, " I explained, "and I'm your mother, and nobody can say it isn't so.
Some of life's greatest calls were answered not by the head but by the body.
A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
...when the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.
Well, the ancients might not have been very heroic. Most of them were probably like Mother, crouched somewhere trying to work out how to make fake jawbone jewelry that would look like the real thing.
Most of them don't know what communism is, could not pick it out of a lineup. They only know what anticommunism is. The two are practically unrelated.
The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our country, while it tramples our rights and dignity.
Well, yeah, " Dovey said. "That's America. We watch shows about rich people's houses and their designer dresses and we drool. It's patriotic.
How does an artist learn enough about life to fill a thimble?""Soli, I'm going to tell you. He needs to go rub his soul against life. ...
It's a selfish habit. I never learn anything from listening to myself.
I thought everything in the world was already discovered. Already in my books. A lot of dead stuff that put me to sleep. That was the day I understood the world is still living.
Outside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry but unsympathetic. The usual position of mothers.
Mama always said barefoot and pregnant was not my style. She knew.
Love changes everything. I never suspected it would be so. Requited love, I should say ...
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it under its roof.
Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.